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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.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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