Getting X to work on a iBook G4 1.2Ghz

[Stephen Harker]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0500, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
> On 9/4/04 2:19 PM, "Thierry de Coulon" <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 04 September 2004 16:38, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
> >> I got Yellow Dog to install on my iBook G4 14" 1.2Ghz machine.  It
> >> installed ok, but the installer defaulted to the text installer.  I have
> >> been trying to get the X server to run.
> > 
> > What graphic card do you have?
>
> ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 with 32 mb video memory

For this you need a later X11 that knows about the Mobility 9200 M9+
chipset.  To get X working on the iBook of the guy sharing the office
with me (chipset 5c63) I compiled the Xorg Xserver from Fedora 2.  For
accelerated X11 you need kernel 2.6.7 or later which knows about the
chipset.  You also must _not_ have video=ofonly in the yaboot.conf for
the configuration, if you do it prevents the radeon driver finding the
framebuffer device.  I had to manually edit the xorg.conf after this,
but it gives accellerated graphics in 16 or 24 bit mode.  

I did write a couple of emails to this list on the problem.

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Stephen Harker                           Stephen.Harker@spme.monash.edu.au
School of Physics & Materials Engineering
Monash University