RE: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!
Hello,
Did you guys try the little Xautoconfig tool?
<http://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/xautocfg/>
Using the fbdev option works for me. :-)
Regards,
Peter.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Schmitz [mailto:schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de]
> Sent: maandag 24 maart 2003 12:45
> To: befu
> Cc: Michel Danzer; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!
>
>
> > > So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release?
> > >
> >
> > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies.
>
> That one might have been suffering from the PCI overlap (I'd need to see a
> lspci -vv output from the 2.2 kernel to be sure). Your 2.4 lspci dump
> shows no resource overlap (2.4 kernels are capable of cleaning up
> overlapped PCI resources on startup, that's why). So X should work to some
> extent without crashing.
>
> > >> 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?)
> >
> > No, the fbdev driver works as the only one only on the 2.4.18
> kernel. With
> > this new kernel the problem was solved.
>
> OK; I just have to assume the LT-G is still unsupported by the XFree ati
> driver, then. fbdev is a bit slower but at least functional.
>
> Michael
>
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