ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

[Steve Burkhart <benzguy1197@gmail.com>]

While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and eventually freezes. I've encountered this problem on 500Mhz, 600MHz, 700MHz, 800MHz, and 900MHz iBooks G3's, and the common theme among them is that they all feature the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, with either 16MB of VRAM, or 32MB of VRAM. 

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 9:35 PM Vlad <vladc6@yahoo.com> wrote:

I hope that those of us who care about Debian Linux retaining compatibility on these beautiful computer systems will reply to the bug report [1] in order to ask the Debian maintainers to reconsider the poorly thought-out decision to delete these drivers:

xserver-xorg-video-ast
xserver-xorg-video-geode
xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident

xserver-xorg-input-aiptek
xserver-xorg-input-elographics
xserver-xorg-input-mtrack
xserver-xorg-input-mutouch
xserver-xorg-input-void

Thanks,
Vlad

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955603