PowerMac G4 17" and YDL 3.0.1 and 3. 0 problems update

[Devaney Michael]

Hi again all and Jeroen :)

Okay the saga continues - Ive since installed the 2.5-26devel-ben kernel and
got the latest snapshop of xfree86 and things are getting better.

Upon booting I no longer get the flickering console - sweet.  I found I
could get rid of this in the original kernel using the kernel boot option
"video=ofonly" but this caused X to stop working! typical.  

Anyway with the new kernel, and the updated version of X, X starts but goes
crazy - the display is going more nuts than it ever was before.  Worse than
that, X just waits at the little clock mouse pointer and does nothing.  When
I try to goto a console the screen stays blank.

I tried the latest version of X with the older kernel and things look a bit
better.  The console is flickering at boot time, but when X starts i get the
same clock mouse pointer and nothing else happens - but the screen is solid!
no flickers or crazyness - its almost there.  Also when I flick back to the
console - it too has stopped flickering.

Now Im wondering if I have all the right configs and kernel settings, or
have i just got a poorly configured X?  Having never upgraded X before, have
I done something stupid and over-written my old settings.

Jeroen - would it be possible for you to send me any kernel parameters you
use, and your XF86Config file?  You seem to have a good handle on how all
this works.  Or if anyone else has one I could see you'd make me very happy!

Cheers,
  Mike.

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