Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Saalmüller wrote:
>
> It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2
> and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no
> dual screen with xrandr which simply doesn't work as it should with
> that version of xorg.
>
> If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't get you a working setup to
> tune things up, try the setting fbset gives or give xrandr a try.
>
> I only get an undisturbed screen after I changed the default
> resolution of 1440x900 with grandr to 1440x960 (Alu PBook G4). As
> MacOS X and Ubuntu do use the second tft via DVI it's not a problem
> with hardware neither linux. My guess is that xorg 7.2 simply isn't
> made for it. It's outdated, btw. 7.3 was released in 2007.
>
> Sad thing that debian testing is still based on that. Same problems
> with AMD64, for your reference, it's not a powerpc problem in my
> opinion and up to my experience.
Indeed, so...
> That might point to the sad fact, that debian isn't for the desktop
> but for servers? Is xorg 7.3 still not enough tested?
... if you're seriously interested in answers to your questions, you
should ask them on the debian-x list instead of here.
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