Subject: Re: 15 inch G4 powerbook
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/15/2005 14:35:53
Hi,

Well, that was a start.  Now it looks like a garbled twm starts up with
the three xterms I would expect.  It's not quite usable though :-)

Does someone hava working XF86config file?  Thanks!

cheers

bruce

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:41:26AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Ok, so the nice shiny new 15" G4 powerbook showed up the other 
> > day, and, since we already know that OSX runs on it I had to put
> > NetBSD on it as well.
> > 
> > Everything went fairly well except for X.  Can someone send me
> > a copy of there config file please?  I'm a bit lost here....
> What exactly is your problem?
> If it's flickering and random horizontal black bars (dis)appearing on the screen and your graphics chip is some sort of Radeon you may want to add 
> option "iBookHacks" "true"
> to your device section in /etc/X11/XF86Config. This effectively keeps the Xserver from trying to change display timing parameters and this way avoids the problem ( everything else, including 24bit and acceleration still works ).
> 
> have fun
> Michael



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