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Re: iBook questions



On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:26:27AM -0400, SteveC wrote:
> I have a white ibook2 running Testing and some wierd things happening:
> 
> 1) The X view is shifted down one line. the top line of the screen is 
> actually the bottom line. if I mova a window around the bottom of the 
> screen the top line changes. what gives? Friend has the same problem, both 
> ATI Radeon displays... This is completely independant of window manager 
> etc

Not here. I use the XF86 downloaded from 

http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/

> 2) The mouse [trackpad] locks up every now and then. This seems to happen 
> more when its hot and the only way I can reset it seems to put it to sleep 
> and wake up the whole laptop... is there some other way? I've been running 
> various BenH kernels for a while.
> 
> 3) Linux seems incapable of playing DVD's at full rate on the ibook, I'm 
> guessing because any assembler optimized routines are for x86. Does anyone 
> play dvd's on their ibook and can show me a good setup? Tried xine / ogle 
> etc in SHM X11 OGL and other modes, no luck.

You need XV. You can get it working using the fbdev option. I use VLC
which has Altivec optimizations. 

Check www.hispalinux.es/~data/ibook/ for more info.

J

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