Graphics in YellowDogLinux 4.0

[Felix Jodoin]

Yup, It's using X.Org.
Okay: Now, before, it would boot up with a small note that (in summary)  
said that there was no kernel framebuffer for my card. It no longer  
does this when i boot up and type linux video=aty128.
And yes, the r128 driver did fail miserably. DRI worked, though.
It said that there was no such device.
-Felix

On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> 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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