Re: X wont start on ibook

[Paul William <maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com>]

It was using the radeon framebuffer. It seemed that X wasn't upgraded, 
which is odd, so I apt removed it, clean the cache, and reinstalled and 
xfree86 4.3 works!!!! Thanks *so* much for your help.

Cheers

Paul

Sam Halliday wrote:
> Paul William wrote:
>
> > Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply 
> > both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling 
> > 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed.
>
>
> did you also remember to set the kernel option
>   video=radeonfb
>
> instead of video=ofonly.