New Ibook 800 mhz Install

[Erik Winkler]

The problem seems to have been solved by a Radeon patch put together by  
Ben Herrenschmidt.  I have posted the patched version of  
2.4.20-rc4-ben0 on my wife's .Mac share at  
http://homepage.mac.com/anniewinkler/FileSharing3.html.  Might as well  
use that Apple bandwidth for something.

The compiled kernel in the archive is for the iBook radeon only.  The  
airport drivers have also been patched to support monitor mode  
(Airsnort).

Erik


On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 03:33 PM, Ron Vutpakdi wrote:

> Several people have gotten YDL 2.3 to install on the new 800 Mhz iBook
> though not without some video problems.
>
> I installed YDL 2.3 by using the safe text mode option and explicitly
> setting the partitions.  The default installation does not work.
>
> Once installed, the video display has a few problems.  The first is one
> that you've already encountered:  the screen just goes dark.  The
> workaround here is to hit the "dim display" button on the keyboard  
> (F1) a
> few times (yes, dim display, not brighten).  After a few presses, the
> display should reappear.
>
> At this point, the second problem appears:  there are quite a few
> horizontal line artifacts that dance around on the screen.  I've tried
> setting the video setting during the installation, and I haven't had  
> any
> luck getting rid of the lines.  At this point, because of the  
> artifacts, I
> find YDL 2.3 to be unusable on my iBook.
>
> I wonder if this upcoming "great announcement" about PPC Linux will  
> include
> a new version that fixes these problems....
>
> Ron
>
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