Graphics in YellowDogLinux 4.0

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

That communicates it to the kernel, but doesn't tell X11 anything. You
need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config* to use the "r128" driver and enable DRI.
Note: This failed miserably in YDL 3.0.1; I only hope they fixed that.
Wasn't YDL4 supposed to be using X.org?

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:28:11 -0600, Felix Jodoin wrote:

> Can you do the same thing for an ati rage 128 mobility?
> I added (to the boot flags) video=aty128fb, will that help?
> 
> On Nov 22, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Owen Stampflee wrote:
> 
>>
>>> I just installed the YDL 4.0 and I as well as other are less than 
>>> satisfied.
>>> I was disappointed to see that my Powerbook g4 (1ghz 1, 1gig of ram, 
>>> radeon
>>> 9000 mobility) in terms of graphics still sucks in YDL.  I also feel
>>> disappointed that I can not run 3d apps with 3d acceleration which is 
>>> what I
>>> would like.
>> 3D should work on that machine, you'll have edit your
>> /etc/X11/XF86Config to enable DRI and use the radeon driver but it
>> should work. We dont enable this by default as it can cause problems,
>> and we chose the safe route.
>>
>>>     However, I impressed with the overall speed improvements with YDL 
>>> 4.0, I
>>> feel that it runs much smoother than 3.x.  However, I feel that at 
>>> least in
>>> the powerbook lines the models are to generalized considering that 
>>> each
>>> version of powerbook has at least 4 or 5 different models.  Also, one 
>>> thing
>>> that I have just not had time to check on is weather bug (feature in 
>>> osx bug
>>> in linux) that was introduced with the latest firmware update from 
>>> apple.
>>> The one that does not allow the powerbook g4 1ghz to run at 1ghz but 
>>> rather
>>> 667 mhz.
>> Interesting, I thought this issue was fixed a long time ago.
>>
>>>     I just want to say that I thank the development team for the 
>>> efforts and
>>> I hope they continue to work things out.  Something that I think that 
>>> some
>>> people don't understand is that linux is always a work in progress and
>>> things are never perfect unless you build things from the ground up 
>>> and know
>>> exactly what you are doing.
>> Thank you. We often make choices that the community doesnt like, but we
>> hope everyone understands if we explain why we did such a thing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Owen
>>
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