20040118 ISOs

nicole yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:13:30 -0400 

I am currently working on the same issue and have not been able to find  
those ISOs.  I do, however, have X working on my 14" iBook G4 now with  
a resolution of 1024x768.  I can't get the refresh/sync to work  
correctly and have all sorts of fun wavy lines on the display that give  
me a massive headache.

Per the directions in step f on this page:  
http://geekounet.org/powerbook/ibookg4.html
I downloaded and compiled CVS which seems to be the first major step in  
getting X to work correctly. The XF86config file posted on the same  
site did not work for me at all.

I have posted my XF86config file below.  Changing the monitor model  
name around does not seem to make any difference- I have had it both as  
generic and TiBook.  I have played with some settings a bit to no  
avail.  I plan on playing around with more of the settings I have seen  
in other people's files, but won't be able to until Wednesday night.   
Feel free to try mine out on your system.  If anyone knows how to fix  
the sync, I would appreciate any assistance.

nicole

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "TFT" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "macintosh"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Modes"

	# mode generated by Xeasyconf
	#Modeline "1024x768" 100.000 1024 1040 1048 1064  768 784 792 808   
-HSync -VSync
	Identifier     "Modes0"
	ModeLine     "1024x768" 75.0 1024 1040 1048 1064 768 784 792 808  
-hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	#HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
	#VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
	Identifier   "TFT-Monitor"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 (2001)"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 100.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 60.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Radeon"
	Driver      "radeon"
	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
	BoardName   "Radeon 9200 Mobility"
	VideoRam    32768
	ChipId      0x514d
	Option	    "no_accel" ""
	Option	    "AGPMode" "4"
	Option	    "UseFBDev"
	Option	    "EnablePageFlip" "On"
	Option	    "CloneMode" "1024x768"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "TFT"
	Device     "Radeon"
	Monitor    "TFT-Monitor"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     1
		Modes    "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     4
		Modes    "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     32
		Modes    "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection



On Jul 27, 2004, at 3:44 PM, <linuxlists@charter.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can get the  
> yellowdog-3.0.1-sirius-20040118-install?.iso 's ?  I see from this  
> site
>
> http://malmostoso.altervista.org/ibook/english/
>
> that it has an updated framebuffer driver that allows the ATI9200 in  
> my new iBook to function.  The ftp site that this site lists is no  
> longer active and edonkey has not been able to find the files on the  
> network to download from there.  Also noted in this lists archives
>
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004- 
> June/014023.html
>
> that someone else asked this same question, but the answer was a link  
> to the 20031118 ISO's, which are not what he or I are looking for.
>
> Apart from this, is there another way to get X working on a Radeon  
> 9200 iBook?  I'm guessing that a new kernel will solve this, but find  
> no updated kernels from 3.0.1 and other, vanilla new kernels (from  
> ppckernel.org) boot with "no init found" (which was originally from  
> not having ext3 support compiled into the kernel, quickly remedied,  
> but same problem persists).
>
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