Re: Problems with X on my Titanium PB
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 21:11, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
>
> 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).
It's more than just slightly different; the woody packages may be too
old to work well with an M9, at least without Option "UseFBDev".
> 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.
That would be wrong, III has M7 while IV has M9.
> I also fiddled with the Option "UseFBDev" "true" line which the
> IV page talked about, but it did not seem to make a difference.
Have you checked the log to see whether it's actually used? It should
make a difference if radeonfb works correctly in console. Your
description sounds like you're still running OFfb.
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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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