iBook x config
nicole
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:00:22 -0400
Great!!! Congrats and thanks for all the information! I will give
this a try as soon as possible.
nicole
On Aug 9, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:
> This time I have good news. Stewart's iBook G4 now has X working
> using the Radeon driver and DRI (acceleration) at up to 24 bit
> graphics. The breakthrough was not due to new compilation, but to my
> noticing an old post I have in a file. This suggested (for a 7500
> Mobility M7 as I have in my iBook G3) that booting with video=ofonly
> in the yaboot.conf would result in the framebuffer device not been
> found and that replacing it with video=radeonfb would work. Since the
> error messages with Xorg X11 and XF86Config radeon drivers were that
> the framebuffer device could not be found this seemed worth a try.