Re: Debian on 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz)

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > 	Should I be trying to use RivaFB on this hardware?  Will the
> >  	openfirmware framebuffer be okay?
> Rivafb is broken in 2.6.3. It works with some patches in 2.6.2 and
> 2.4.2X.

Well, its sort of broken. On my iMac (NV10) fbcon scrolling is broken, X
is fine. And fbcon doesn't crash, just stop scrolling (looks like console
switching just about properly updates the display).

I used the riva i2c code (to read monitor specs from the monitor), in case
that helps.

	Michael