Re: TiBook / Debian / X problems
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:49, Nick Allen wrote:
>
> I'd read somewhere that in order to use X with my TiBook, I would have
> to use XFree86 4.2.0 because it's the only version with Radeon Mobility
> support.
I'm not sure 4.2 supported your chip.
> The second method: Installing, apt-get'ing for updates, installing
> the new Kernel through rsync again, then using apt-get to install
> Michael Daenzer's updated x-windows-system-core and x-window-system
> packages;
For the record, I have never provided such packages.
> using apt again to install drm-trunk-module-src, x-server-xfree86-dri-trunk,
> and xlibmesa3-dri-trunk. I ran dpkg a couple times, updated the
> modules a couple times,
The DRM is only needed for the DRI. You should worry about getting the X
server working at all first.
> and tried to "startx" again. This time the screen actually did something
> different. It displayed 8 black horizontal lines across the screen in
> front of what looked like white clouds turning into purple eventually
> turning into blue, a transition not unlike what you'd expect if you
> pushed your finger into an LCD panel. The machine froze in that
> state. I turned it off hard, only to have the end result be the same
> as the end result of Method 1.
It's hard to tell what's going on without at least seeing the X server
log and maybe the config file.
> When the machine reboots I can't login. I don't know where the
> interrupt sequence is to manually edit the runlevel, so I'm kinda
> screwed in that regard.
At the yaboot prompt, type
<label> single
to boot into single user mode. Press tab to see the list of available
labels.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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