External Display on YDL4 & iBook G4

Albrecht Dreß albrecht.dress at arcor.de
Mon Dec 13 12:28:23 MST 2004


Am 13.12.04 18:54 schrieb(en) Andrew Zschetzsche:
> Has anybody gotten the external display to work on the iBook G4?
> (mobility radeon 9200 card).  There have been reports of it working out
> on the internet.  I've gotten it to the point of it working, but with a
> messed-up color map (guessing the card runs out of vram) , or the
> external display giving a really strange, blown up version of the
> internal screen.

This may be one of the issues BenH fixed only very recently in the xorg  
radeon driver, see  
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-December/004950.html.

For my setup (radeon 7500, tft display via adc), ydl4 xorg doesn't work at  
all with the 2.6.8 kernel.

Cheers, Albrecht.

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