[yellowdog-announce] Yellow Dog Linux Apple support updates: 2002 12/20

[Dan Burcaw]

Radeonfb has an acceleration bug
that is triggered when you exit X.

You can fix this by rebooting, or doing:

/usr/sbin/fbset -a -accel 0

This will make console scrolling VERY slow, however.

> The CD burning appears to be OK with the MD5SUM below.
> 
> The gui installation did succeed (iBook model M8600LL/A), however, I am
> still having some video related problems.  Previously, with YDL 2.3, I
> could not get the gui install to work at all, my screen would washout on
> booting the CD.  I had to resort to "text-safe-mode"(?) during
> installation, (I don't remember the exact wording.)  Now the gui
> installation works, however, I still have to change the XF86Config-4
> file for "radeon" to enable X to start, also 32 bit mode fails and must
> use 24 bit.
> 
> Now, I am having a problem that when I log out of Gnome back to console
> the previous console messages cannot be cleared and the new console
> messages are garbled on top of the old.  I have to shut down and restart
> to clear the screen.
> 
> Tony K.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 11:51, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> > >Are there MD5SUM's available for these downloads?  I got...
> > >
> > >bce486dd487f4880678d032ba32043eb  ydl-2.3-11Dec02.iso
> > 
> > FWIW, that's the checksum I got also. Haven't burned it yet to see if 
> > it works...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Stefan Jeglinski
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