Hi Stan,
Stan Johnson wrote:
Hi Riccardo,
According to Linux, my Wallstreet has a "3D RAGE LT PRO". My Lombard
is similar to your iBook; the Lombard also has a "3D RAGE LT PRO".
lspci tells me:
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Rage Mobility L AGP 2x (rev 64)
dmesg instead:
[ 10.872103] atyfb 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0086 -> 0087)
[ 10.872231] atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
[ 10.872922] atyfb: 3D RAGE Mobility L (Mach64 LN, AGP 2x) [0x4c4e rev
0x64]
[ 10.873034] atyfb: 4M SDRAM (2:1) (32-bit), 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 230
MHz PLL, 70 Mhz MCLK, 53 MHz XCLK
[ 10.878457] atyfb: monitor sense=0, mode 20
[ 10.930965] aty: Backlight initialized (atybl0)
[ 10.931072] atyfb: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
if the chip is similar, it could be a good thing to verify
configurations and other things in our quest. My PowerBook G3 is long
gone :( so I only have this iBook.
Of course i have a small 800x600 screen, the only real complaint about
the iBook, together with the single USB.
Which bootloader are you using? Your system appears to be a New World
Mac, so either Yaboot or GRUB is supposed to work (though as far as I
know, GRUB doesn't work if you want to be able to boot Mac OS 9 or Mac
OS X from the GRUB menu). Also, GRUB doesn't work at all on the
Lombard, so it might not work on your iBook (I'm not sure since I
don't have an iBook to test). If you're using Yaboot, you can specify
as many kernels as you want (same as in GRUB).
yaboot. I choose long ago, I think back then GRUB was guaranteed not to
work, or I had issues installing it from the installer CD, I don't
remember exactly
The bad
With Yaboot, you can edit the yaboot.conf file directly. You can use
"mac-fdisk -l" or "parted -l" to determine your Apple_Bootstrap
partition, then mount that partition (e.g. "mount /dev/sda9 /mnt" if
your Apple_Bootstrap partition is /dev/sda9). I usually keep a copy of
the last working yaboot.conf in /etc and in the Apple_Bootstrap
partition as yaboot.conf.old and then edit the real yaboot.conf
directly (if you make a mistake, you can boot into Mac OS X by holding
down the option key at boot, then mount the Apple_Bootstrap partition
there to fix yaboot.conf or copy yaboot.conf.old back to yaboot.conf).
MacOS is gone for me, I installed a small SSD PATA and squeeze out all
space. Also, I have no use for Classic
but thangs for reminding me that /boot/yaboot.conf is the source, but
not the actual used file. After using Grub, I got confused.