Powerbook 17" 1.5Ghz

[Cian Duffy]

It should start fine using the fbdev Open Firmware framebuffer, and
you can edit XF86Config from within KDE or GNOME. My G4 iBook did
anyway.

Cian


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:34:18 -0800, Doug Jaworski <doug at cagemonkey.com> wrote:
> Cian Duffy wrote:
> 
> >2D definately, 3D maybe not. I think the 8500 chipset is the last
> >supported, as used in the 9200SE the cheapend Apples have.
> >
> >Try using the Radeon driver and enable DRI and hopefully it'll work.
> >You'll definately get 2D acceleration with AGP support anyway.
> >
> >Cian
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:11:02 -0800, Doug Jaworski <doug at cagemonkey.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is there any chance that there is a video driver out there for the ATI
> >>RADEON Mobility 9700?
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> >
> Thanks Cian,
> 
> My next question would be how I would do this when installing YD 4.0.
> After the install it wants to go to GDM (GUI). I suppose I could change
> the init level but I would suspect that Yellow Dog allready has this
> Driver and it just needs to be inabled. NIce thing about using YD would
> be that it onl has to work with a very narrow list of hardware vs. the
> x86 Liniuxs.
> 
> -D
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