Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

Hi All,

I've tried endlessly to get X going on my PB17 but no luck.  I can't 
understand why it is so hard :(
I've tried all sorts of benh kernels (2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22).
I've tried lots of different XF86Config-4's from various people that 
have X working.
I've tried various versions of xfree86 (debian/unstable and Michael's 
dri-trunk).
I've tried with and with out "video=ofonly"

Nothing seems to work.  X -probeonly doesn't give any errors but when I 
use "startx" the screen just goes blank.  I can't seem to kill X but I 
can login via ssh from a remote machine.  I did try killing some 
processes and noticed that the screen was still black.  I looked closer 
and I could see the console but it was very very faint.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong???

I really really REALLY want to get this going soon.  I have been trying 
for 3 months now (on and off) and I'm going on holidays soon and what to 
take my laptop with me.  If I can't get it going then I will have to 
resort to using MacOS-X and I don't really like the interface much.

Thanks for any help, suggestions or pointers.
Brendan Simon.

Please CC me as well as the list.