Getting X to work on a iBook G4 1.2Ghz

[Andrew Zschetzsche]

I just got done building from source XFree86 4.4.0.  When I run that, the
screen appears, but it is all cracked and streaked from left to right.  A
red X appears as the mouse cursor.  I can't ctrl-opt-F2 to get back to
another terminal.

When I try to build Xorg from the source rpm from Fedora 2, it complains
about a dependency.  (although I haven't tried to install that.)

Yaboot.conf did not have any line referring to a video=ofonly.  I added a
video=radeonfb line, and that did not help.

Any ideas?

Andy


On 9/5/04 5:29 PM, "Stephen Harker" <Stephen.Harker@spme.monash.edu.au>
wrote:

> 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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