On Mon, 22 May 2000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Has anyone got XFree86 version 4.0 working on the new PowerBook or on a > G4 system. If so, what kernels did you use and could you post an > XF86Config file. > I can get an X cursor on the G4, but the screen is bright green. I > can't get any xdm login screens or window managers running. I'm not > sure if there are conflicts between version 3 and version 4 > libraries/binaries. > > I have even download the XFree86 source and compiled it. I can't get it > to work on the PowerBook at all. I keep getting "ATI unknown chipset > (0x4c46) rev 2" error messages. This is part of the libscanpci.a module > so I assume its a PCI ID that is unknown but I am not sure. > > Can any one help. Maybe the G4 and new PowerBook aren't supported yet ? > Although I have installed X 4.0 on my Intel laptop I did come across some utilities (I think at ftp.xfree86.org) to convert previous versions of xf86config files to the new x 4.0 version. If you can't find ask me and I'll see if I can remember where it is.
BTW I now have X 4.0 working on my laptop, I decided to use the pre-compiled binaries (bit miffed as I would like to compile them by hand with -O2 -DCPU=686 and remove the stuff I don't need) however I can't suspend my laptop without the screen on the graphics console mangling; even if I suspend from a text console! Once my laptop, with its Trident Cyber 9397, resumes the the laptop works fine but the x screen is still intact but with the upper quarter mangled with vertical lines. X works fine after rebooting it though. Any ideas would be nice Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
