Re: Newbie question about X and powerbooks
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:55:03PM +0100, Hani Jabr wrote:
> Hi.
>
> After some playing around I got my powerbook (G4 500) to boot into
> linux.
>
> I'm using the video=ofonly option, and X doesn't seem to work, which I
> assume is normal (i.e. some kind of text-only driver has been
> specified). If I don't have a video=something option, or if I use
> video=aty128fb or video=atyfb the screen goes white and the display says
>
> "opening display /pci@f0000000/ATY,RageM3p12Parent@IO/ATY,RageM3p12B_"
>
> It seems to keep loading (I can hear the disk whirring), but the screen
> seems to get stuck on this.
Are you using a 2.4 kernel? If so, you might get better results booting with
no video= at all.
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