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Re: Xfree86 / Debian 3.0 / ibook2 problems



On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:41:38AM -0700, Gurujiwan Khalsa wrote:
> Tomorrow (20.05.03), at 12:33am, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:23, Gurujiwan Khalsa wrote:
> > >
> > > Thursday (15.05.03), at 8:28am, Pisupati, Ajay wrote:
> > >
> > > > Read Jesus Climent's most excellent page.  at
> > > > www.hispalinux.es/~data/ibook/ specifically - configuring the
> > > > system.
> > >
> > > After installing Michel Daenzer's xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk as
> > > described on the above page I can at least get X to start.  However
> > > the display looks terrible, with lines and interference thoughout
> > > the screen.  Once I kill the session, the console is unusable until
> > > I reboot.
> >
> > If you aren't using Option "UseFBDev" yet, do so. If that doesn't
> > help, you may need a newer benh kernel.
> 
> Yes, I am using Option "UseFBDev".  Anyways, after reading:
> 
> <http://www.ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=21>
> 
> I decided to install 2.4.21-pre6, following the instructions at:
> 
> <http://www.ibooklinux.net/plain_page.php?caller=ibooklinux.php3+record=85>
> 
> and when I try to boot the new benh kernel, the keyboard map is totally
> screwed (ie, "m" sends "z", "q" sends "\n", etc).  I can't even log
> on to run 'depmod -a' and so on.  What is causing this, and how can I
> avoid it?

Does it sound like 

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes/ ?

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