Re: External monitor on ibook2
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 06:37, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 05:09, Scott Patterson wrote:
> > I've read lots of posts over the months about using m3mirror to get this
> > to work. Everything I've tried leads to a display that is less than
> > optimal, especially in X (wavy display or chopped off). All the posts
> > I've read indicate this has NOT yet been solved.
> >
> > Has anyone had success getting the ibook2 to display properly using the
> > external monitor port under Linux? I'd rather not use MacOS X at the LUG
> > meeting tomorrow if I don't have to...
> >
> > BTW, I'm running Debian Sid with the stock 2.4.18-newpmac kernel.
>
> Use the framebuffer driver instead of the r128 one in X.
>
> If you search carefully the archives, somebody has reported success with
> this IIRC. I never tried it though.
But there shouldn't be a difference between r128 with UseFBDev and the
fbdev driver, except that the latter may use the mode from console, but
that can be achieved with r128 as well.
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