Re: Debian on 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz)

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Should I be trying to use RivaFB on this hardware? Will the > > openfirmware framebuffer be okay? > Rivafb is broken in 2.6.3. It works with some patches in 2.6.2 and > 2.4.2X. Well, its sort of broken. On my iMac (NV10) fbcon scrolling is broken, X is fine. And fbcon doesn't crash, j

Re: Debian on 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz)

2004-02-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:48:46PM +1300, James Whatever wrote: > I am able to mount my Panther partition and my iPod using the Linux > firewire drivers, however the hfsplus fs driver doesn't seem to handle > the uid= argument, so I cannot access my files from my shell account. Unless it's been ch

Re: Debian on 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz)

2004-02-29 Thread Guido Guenther
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:48:46PM +1300, James Whatever wrote: > Should I be trying to use RivaFB on this hardware? Will the > openfirmware framebuffer be okay? Rivafb is broken in 2.6.3. It works with some patches in 2.6.2 and 2.4.2X. > How can I get multi-head working on this

Debian on 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz)

2004-02-29 Thread James Whatever
Hey folks. I have debian sarge installed on my 12 inch powerbook, and am using Linux 2.6.3-ben2 kernel. I have a few questions that hopefully some people on this list will be able to help with. I'm no stranger to Debian or Linux on PPC, as I used to run Debian on my old iBook without problems.