Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB
Hello Christophe,
I do not rightly know which version I have, or how to tell. I do know
my machine was purchased in Jan 2003, so I would bet it is a IV. I
noticed a TiBook IV page at http://spacepants.org/hw/tibook/ that also
said to install from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/ . However, he
was using sid, not woody, and so it was slightly different
(xlibmesa3-gl1-dri-trunk instead of xlibmesa3-dri-trunk). Apple System
Profiler says my video card name is 'ATI,Xia_A'. The TiBook IV page
seems to indicate at the top that the chip set in IV and III are the
same. I also fiddled with the Option "UseFBDev" "true" line which the
IV page talked about, but it did not seem to make a difference.
Johnathon
christophe barbe wrote:
> Hi Johnathon,
>
> Two importants things about my TiBook page: I own a TiBook3 which is
> more than 1 year old now (make sure you have the same model), and I am
> still using the config file you got but I am sure it's possible to do
> better now.
>
> What kind of TiBook do you have? What video chipset is in it?
>
> Christophe
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:56:48AM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just installed debian on my Titanium yesterday. I installed woody. I
>>did a net install, so my packages should be reasonably recent.
>>Initially, X did not work, but I followed the instructions at
>>http://www.cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/#XFREE for X.
>>
>>Specifically, I added the line
>>deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./
>>to /etc/apt/sources.list, and ran the following three commands:
>>$ apt-get update
>>$ apt-get install x-window-system-core x-window-system
>>$ apt-get install drm-trunk-module-src xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk \
>>
>>>xlibmesa3-dri-trunk
>>
>>I also used the provided XF86Config-4 file,
>>http://www.cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/XF86Config-4 . At this
>>point, X started functioning. However, (1) the colors are wrong, (2)
>>the pointers are wrong, and (3) I have lost visual use of text consoles.
>>
>>(1) Almost the entire screen is yellowish. Occasional bits, like some
>>of the KDE toolbar and the pointer, are the right colors. I saw that
>>this was brought up on this list at the end of August, but I do not
>>understand what I am supposed to do.
>>
>>(2) The pointers are wrong. Imagine taking the bounding box of the
>>pointer, taking the right and left thirds, and swaping them. That is,
>>if the pointer should display as:
>>123
>>123
>>123
>>it displays as:
>>321
>>321
>>321
>>The hot spot is always in the top left corner.
>>
>>(3) Once X starts, all text consoles are damaged. When switching to a
>>text console, it is black, except for a gray line about 30-40 pixels up
>>from the bottom. The line is about 5-10 pixels high, and is about 50%
>>gray at the bottom, fading to black at the top. The keyboard still
>>works, and I can do things, but I just can not see what I am typing.
>>This phenomenon persists even after X exits.
>>
>>Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
>>
>>Johnathon Jamison
>>
>>
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