Hello -- is the 'dual scan passive matrix' displays unsupported sofar in any PPC distribution? Will woody make any difference for this?
I tried YDL 2.0, which claim to support all WallStreet PowerBoog G3's. But during install I found that I could only read the what was happening (regardless of whether I used X-installer or Text installer) if I connected my PB to an external montior and looked at that monitor instead of the internal display. But of course, when the installer came to X-install, it stopped any how so... This made me look into other distros [and from what I have read, I have almost been converted to Debian]. Just before writing this mail I tried to boot into LinuxPPC as well as into Debian. THe result was the same on both: a splitted unreadable screan. Only the black and white boot start up view, was readable... I have found a note on the web about problem with dual scan on THinkPad 750c. See <http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/#X> Perhaps it can give someone a clue about how to deal with dual scans... Though the problem here seems not to only be with X as even the text installer creates the same problems. Of the G3-powerbooks, the 233mhz wallstreet is the onlyone wiht dual scan display. There is also one version of the 2400 PowerBook which has dual scan. LinuxPPC claims to support both the 2400's and the G3's. But since dual scan is relatively seldom on the PCI-macs, I fear that they have been left out. The rest of the dual scan power books are also few and counts for pb's which generally aren't considered to work with Linux (like 1400 series). Does someone have an idea what needs to be done? Can I type something into the command line in BootX? Or is it undoable? Perhaps I must donate my precious PB to a developer...? Perhaps I *must* try BSD or OS X? I hope not... Sorry for my rather novice questions. -- Leif H Silli OSlo
