X & No keyboard input with new kernels
I recently did a woody net install on my first generation tibook (booting
the installer from OF...). I never had luck too much luck with the X in
debian, but it worked fine for me in yellow-dog 2.1 & 2.2. But since I
would much rather run woody than yd, I started playing with it last night,
and was able to get a little further into it. I can get some sort of X to
start with the fbdev driver, but only 8 bit color. 15 & 16 croak on me.
I noticed that the yellow dog conf was using the ati driver, but I can't
get any color depth to work with X in debian.
So I figured maybe my kernel was missing something. i386 kernel compiling
doesn't bother me in the least, but I'm not too comfortable with ppc
hardware, so I grabbed a Ben H. kernel from ppckernel. I also copied the
2.4.18xxx kernel & modules from the yd side over & set both up. However,
when I booted either of them, I had no keyboard input. (I have no kernel
parameters for either through append in yaboot.conf...)
In the meantime, I'm giving a shot at the kernel compile myself.
Any suggestions for X or something else I could be doing wrong
kernel-wise?
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Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
1 College Circle - 124b1 South Hall
SUNY Geneseo
Geneseo, NY 14454
585-245-5577
585-259-3471 (Cell)
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