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Re: radeon on newest ibooks



On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:58, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> 
> I recently installed Debian on a PowerBook G4 667 (3. generation, with
> DVI and Radeon M7), and I ran into some similar problems. After a week
> or so searching for information and trying various things, I got X
> working. Basically, this was what I had to do:
> 
> 1. Install Ben's latest kernel (at the moment, I'm running
>    2.4.19-pre10-ben0)
> 2. Find a working modeline for my LCD screen. This thread contains much
>    helpful information:
>    http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200205/msg00399.html

The easiest way to get a mode definition is fbset -x (if you're running
radeonfb).


> It's working almost perfectly now. The only problem I've noticed is that
> the screen becomes garbled some times when switching consoles. It goes
> away when switching consoles again.

Same here, seems to be a radeonfb glitch.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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