Hi there. I finally made X work with full 1024x768 resolution on this iBook. (hooray!). I'm sending a copy of this to -powerpc for reference and future googlers.
First I downgraded the whole Xorg and its components to the stable version (etch?). Then, I was conservative and used dpkg-reconfigure to configure the monitor. It worked *fine*. On the other hand, using a configuration file (xorg.conf) from sid on the etch branch gave me the same results as if I were using sid. But keeping the etch-generated file with sid xorg.conf worked fine. I think (I'm investigating this right now) that the issue here is that the modern Xorg configuration tools don't write the monitor frequencies (if I ask X to configure itself with "X -configure"), while they seem crucial on this machine for it to work. (Just tested it) Yep! That's it: the lines with the monitor frequencies are *needed* for X to work with the correct resolution. Even though I made this work, I think that this bug is quite not done yet, but I can lower its severity to normal. On Jun 03 2008, Brice Goglin wrote: > There are many different components in Xorg. The one you should look at are: > * the r128 driver is at > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-r128 > * the Xservet at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver > > Bisecting the former should be easy. Bisecting the latter may be much > more a pain due to ABI changes or so... Nice. I can bisect it now to see the culprit changeset. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]