X working on my 15" Al PB

[Robert H. Lewis]

> From: Justin Mack <jmack@isuccf.org>
> Date: Thu Feb 12, 2004  7:25:47  AM America/Montreal
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Powerbook 15" 2003 (Albook) XFree86 problems
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> Just a note that after a lot of frustration with previously trying to
> get X working on my 15" Al PB, the day has finally arrived!  In fact,
> I had gotten so frustrated with my previous attempts that I darn well
> nearly gave up all together, even to the point of removing all my
> linux partitions and returning to OS X only.  I tried various steps
> such as updating the kernel, updating XFree (which was a real pain and
> never was entirely successful), but in the end, all I really needed to
> do was change the "driver" from "Radeon" to "fbdev", after I did that,
> all was well.  My wish list now is someday getting 2d and 3d hardware
> acceleration from my Radeon Mob 9600.

 I have the same problem.  Can you tell me what you mean exactly?  How do I
change the "driver" from "Radeon" to "fbdev".  Do you mean I try to boot up
on Linux?  Or is this on a file I can access via Mac OS X?

  Last fall I went to all the trouble of partitioning the drive, putting OS
X on one, another partition for OS 9, a third for Linux, installing Linux,
etc.  I've been booting on OSX ever since.  How do I change that?

  Thanks,

Bob Lewis