On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > > I have a 2002 powerbook with the ati radeon 7500 mobility. I still get > > very weird effects on the screen when entering graphics mode, and it is > > unusable :(. > > install-gui-benh is also wierd? This may be the same machine someone else > mentioned, that drove me to add the "force-fbdev" in the final for.
Okay, I managed to do a text install, so I could experiment with X config. I inserted the 1280x854 modeline into the XF86Config-4, started X and.... ... got the some effect as in the installer. So basically this seems to be a modeline issue. I changed the horizsync to "30-70", the vertrefresh to "50-131" (saw these somewhere on the net) and I nearly got a useable X. The resolution, the colors are good, but there is a constant interference on the screen (which makes it unusable). Other major problems: - After starting X, I cannot switch back to the console. You may think of me as a dumb now :), but I get an even more wierd effect... :( - Whenever X crashed, I had to do a reset. Before crashing X, I did a "mount -o remount,sync,noatime /dev/root" to reduce filesystem corruption. Even after doing this, after reboot fsck asked me about repairing the filesystem, because it found too serious errors. What the "fun" thing was: I really have no idea why, but at this point, my keyboard was _totally_ screwed up. I could not answer "Y", beacuse I could not find which key it was mapped mapped. For example, pressing enter caused printing a "8" character on the screen. (??? I could not believe this, I know this is getting insane ???). [Finally, I could do the fsck by spawning a shell with the kernel parameter "init=/bin/bash"] Wuff. That's it for now :) -- pozsy
