Yellow Dog Apple display LCD problem

[Stephen Lewis]

Radeon 7000 PCI card works fine including DRI
with XFree86 4.2. So does Rage128. I would not
expect an automatic install script to set it up
but multiple video cards are easily accomodated
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Try 'XFree86 -configure'
which will find multiple cards and write a config
file for you to edit, then 'man XF86Config' for
the rules,

Stephen Lewis

> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:31:55 -1000
> From: Angela Kahealani <angela@kahealani.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Yellow Dog Apple display LCD problem
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> Bernard Mason wrote:
> > Hardware; G4/500, 1,5 gig memory: Mac Edition Radeon AGP Card:
> using
> > Apple Studio Display (LCD) DVI output and Yellow Dog Linux v2.3. 
> 
> Hardware: G3/266 Beige MiniTower, 768MB RAM;
> Mac Edition Radeon 7000 PCI Card; using
> Apple Studio Display (LCD) ADC from DVI output via Dr.Bott's
> DVI-ator.
> 
> The YDL Configure/Install Python script ignores the card and only
> lets
> me configure the motherboard video. The Xautoconfigurator also barfs
> out
> a crashable XF86Config-4 file.
> I also have and NTSC monitor on the S-Video port, and an Apple
> PerformaPlus VGA on the VGA port of the Radeon card... and YDL
> refuses
> to use the card at all...
> as I understand it from TerribleSoftwareSolutions, there simply is no
> completed driver for the Radeon 7000 card, and Radeon cards in
> general
> are not fully supported.
> I have to run with no hardware acceleration period.
> 
> Between that and no Right Shift Key on the mega-standard
> Apple Extended Keyboard, and YDL is pretty unusable for 
> ANy kind of workstation/GUI work, though it certainly is
> a fine UNIX network server. 
>