Powerbook G4 12' and X11

[Jari Oksanen]

It seems that the new double-zero RedHat (Fedora Core 1.0) advertises
experimental support to ATI Radeon. This is an extract from
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/:

<quote>
The XFree86 "radeon" driver has been enhanced by Red Hat to include
experimental 2D-only support for some of ATI's newer hardware, including
the following models:

...[clip]
- Radeon 9200 (AGP) 5964
- Radeon 9600 AP (AGP)
- Radeon 9600 Pro AR (AGP)
...[clip]

NOTE: The new Radeon driver support has been included for people to test
and to help identify possible instabilities requiring additional work in
the future. Note also that there are even newer models of ATI hardware
that are not supported at this time.
</quote>

However, they have only i386 versions and SRPMs. I have no idea if these
are of any use for new Mac portables (since I don't have one yet, but I
am waiting the troublemaker to land at my table). Please note that RH
does not mention support to "Mobility" models.

cheers, Jari Oksanen 

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 09:39, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> > After spending quite a bit of time yesterday searching on the internet and
> > on the yellowdog website I've still been unable to find a recommended X11
> > driver for my new Powerbook G4 12'.  The yellowdog website says it supports
> > this model and even lists the correct video card (NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
> > with 32MB of DDR SDRAM) but at no point does it give a recommendation for
> > what driver to use
> 
> Driver "nv", I believe, but...
> 
> <URL:http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status23.html#23>
> 
> Unless YDL made some modifications to their XFree86 release that I'm not
> aware of, the official XFree86 4.3.0 release doesn't support your card
> in any way.  While the 4.4.0 release is not yet out, I believe your only
> option is to use a development snapshot.  I believe this also goes for
> the newest Radeon models.  I would love to be wrong on this!  See also
> my earlier post on the topic:
> 
> <URL:http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-October/010312.html>
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