iBook x config

[nicole]

Thanks for all of the information!  I have not had a chance to sit down 
and play with any of this stuff since last week, but it is good to have 
an idea of what won't fix it before I end up wasting a lot of time.

nicole


On Aug 3, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:

> Hi Nicole,
>
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:34:35AM -0400, nicole wrote:
>> If he finds something that works, please post about it.  I had the
>> 2.6.6 kernel and have the "torn" affect you describe... compiling CVS
>> helped enough that my display is mostly useable. I have tried the
>> chipset id variable with no success.  Currently my display is useable
>> for about 5 - 10 minutes before headaches ensue from the "scrolling
>> line" effect.  I am trying to get this to work though at this point I
>> am ready to try another distribution.  I got my iBook in 11/03 so I
>> suspect I do not have the older Radeon chipset this works on.
>
> A further update on the problem.  Installing XFree86-4.3.0-55 from the
> fedora archives did not help.  The XFree it comes with does mention
> M9+, but with other chipID's than 5c63 (5968, 5969, 596A and 596B).
> As a result even with setting the chipId to one of these Stewart's
> iBook did not get more than 8bit fbdev to work.
>
> Stewart did download, build and install XFree86 4.4, but there appears
> to have been a problem with dependencies and it needs to be rebuilt.
> This does recognise the chipset correctly, but the Radeon driver
> crashes with comments about library dependencies!  Similar problems
> resulted when the fbdev driver was tried for more than 8bits.
>
> Stewart will try rebuilding XFree86 to fix the dependency problem
> tonight.  The other option is the Xorg X11 server for which an src.rpm
> is available for Fedora.
>
> I will let you (and the list) know of further developments.
>
> -- 
> Stephen Harker                           
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