Re: Xfree86 help on PowerBook 17
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:36, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Jens Schmalzing wrote:
>
> >>I did get X going on my PB17 once. I thought I had got to the bottom
> >>of it. Now it wont work and it is the exact same XF86Config-4.
> >
> >Which 17" Powerbook? Among other things, Apple changed the video
> >hardware with the last model upgrade. My 1.33GHz 17" Powerbook is
> >running nicely with radeonfb from a 2.6.0-test7-ben0 kernel and
> >XFree86 4.3.99 from Michel's dri-trunk packages.
> >
> >
> It is the 1GHz PowerBook.
[...]
> I'm using Debian unstable version of XF86. This seems recent enough.
> It detects the video hardware OK and "X -probeonly" does not report any
> errors in the log file.
Still, as has been said here before, only XFree86 4.3 or later has any
chance of working kinda well with nVidia hardware on PPC.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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