Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> With Michels advise I found a new 2.4.18 kernel with:
>
> apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.*powerpc
>
> and downloaded it with:
>
> apt-get install -d kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc (-d for download only without
> installation).

So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release?

> Trying out some different settings of the XF86Config-4 file with:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
> I found the only working driver was the "fbdev" driver, needing no System
> RAM, but needing /dev/input/mice.

Did fbdev work with the old kernel also? I suspect your new kernel doesn't
fix the problem but rather found an old way to bypass the problem (Michel:
does X mangle the PCI resources only with the aty driver, or does this
happen with fbdev as well?)

	Michael