Re: Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17
On Sep Sat 06 2003 02:54, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 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.
What about sending some X log? :-)
Perhaps some guru here might have a bright idea ;-)
--
J. Javier Maestro
<jjmaestro@computer.org>
http://rigel.homelinux.com
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