New Ibook 800 mhz Install

[alex]

Erik,
thanks for the help.. has yellowdog been informed about this patch?  
Does anybody know if made it to official kernel code?
are there any instructions to apply this kernel to a yellow dog 2.3  
installation?

-alex
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 10:11 PM, Erik Winkler wrote:

> 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
>>
>> =====
>> ====================================================================== 
>> ======
>> Ron Vutpakdi
>> vutpakdi@acm.org
>>
>>
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