Hi, I also have an iBook 800 with the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB (which is what they come with now) Using the beta I was able to do a gui install, the screen was extremely distorted, but I could make enough of it out to go through it (it showed 2 cursors, one real one on the left and a ghost of it to the right, everything was like this). I had to configure X with a screen type of "Ibook2 1024x768 16bit color" X starts, and I can use it.... sort of. The cursor is white, and the screen has bouncing horizontal lines running through it where ever there is a color change. I also have to drag up the KDE bar from the bottom of the screen. It's hard to describe. When I tried to do a screen shot the lines didn't show up. If I start X then close it, my screen completely trashes up with lots of horizontal white lines etc. Maybe I can take a picture of it with my digital camera if anyone is interested. Also I don't know which USB driver I should load, and I get a sound error when I start X. Then tEthernetthe ethernet interface, which seems to get dedoesn't, but doesnt work, and the Airport interface that I also can't get to work. (I did read the letters about changing the lines in the .pm files in the /usr/lib/libDrakX folder, but when I try to run drakconnect it cusses at me and tells me something about newt) 8P
Sorry about the length of this, but I thought I should sharesuccessilure and succes so far. -Bounty --- Wolfgang Hovest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there, > > i recently bought an ibook800 (which is my first apple-computer since my > appleII !), 'cause I need a linux notebook, and i decided not to buy an > i386 one; those are too heavy; or too short in on-time; or too big; or > too expensive if you want all above... > > but now to the point: > with the old (8.2) ppc-linux this ibook has problems with the gui. > something in the hardware of the new ibook must be different to the > elder ones, i couldn't use any of the gui-installs. only the > text-install worked. but even then, when i start xfree the tft is > flickering with horizontal lines with a few hertz. > > with the 9.1-beta-release it's even worse. the tft is getting black > immediately when i try the gui-install, and if i choose intall-text, at > the time the installer asks for the resolution, it starts the xserver > (which i'm able to see), asks if it's ok - thats the last i can see > regardless i answer yes or no - it's getting black again, and i can't > complete the install... > > i tried to change the driver in XF86config-4 to "ati" or "fbdev", and i > tried to comment out the dri option - but nothing of these helps... > > i hope this gives some hints on the way to a stable release; if you need > more details, i'll try to follow this list regularly... > > wolfgang > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
