Hi Christophe Thanks for the reply.
- get better power/thermal mgmt going - it runs extremely hot with the default kernel, hopefull this will help cool things off.With the default woody kernel the laptop was very hot quickly (scary) but everything seems fine since I have installed the last benh kernel. For that I have used the default config (the one coming with the benh source. I have since changed the ide-cd option from yes to module to be able to use ide-scsi (I have not tried yet). I have also removed radeon.o and r128.o to use the xfree stuff from michael (more below).
I'm a bit ignorant at kernel compiles, so my specific questions would be:
- where is the default config file and how do I invoke it? (a simple ./configure in the src root?)
- how do I remove radeon.o and r128.o? - which gcc are you using? But I'll wait on your config description...
- setup X properly so I can use windowmakerI can send you my XConfig but can't help you with Windowmaker because I am an happy gnome2 user (from debian/experimental).
No problem with windowmaker, I mainly need a good Xconfig. Once that is set, windowmaker is easy to start from .xinitrc
I have first installed X4.2 from branden but was not able do get something working then I have installed the deb from michael and got a good X config. I have since compiled from source the dri-trunk stuff from michael (after removing readeon.o and r128.o from the kernel), added the "pre-install radeon agpgart" line (check the friday archive) and I have now accelerated 3D.
Sounds awesome. I tried installing the .deb with the default kernel and followed some of the example modelines, but was unable to get x started. I would get an error regarding no screens with valid modes found.
If anyone who has configured the same model tiBook could give me a moredefinitive list of steps to take (kernel first, which xfree to use, which modeline to use (can I copy the xfconfig examples directly?), etc) in getting things online, I would be grateful. I know this comes up often, I just couldn't figure out the proper path to take here.Hope this help, more are to come with the page I hope to publish tonight.
thanks in advance. If it's specific enough, I'll probably wipe my current install (it does not have much on it) and follow those instructions from scratch to avoid any conflicts with botched kernel compiles, packages, etc.
cheers Jim M