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.