X working on my 15" Al PB

[Ed McKnight]

Any luck with sleep and audio?  --emk


Robert H. Lewis wrote:
>>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
> 
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