Roger, Sorry for this late reply. fbdev is the "frame buffer device" and is a very basic driver for XFree, without acceleration or anything. One can force it by putting a video=fbdev as boot argument to the kernel. see http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-user/200012/msg00696.html Cheers Damir Roger Chrisman wrote:
Damir Buskulic wrote:
Hi Roger,
I installed SuSE7.3 on my Powerbook Wallstreet with some problems, but did it at the end. For installation, I used the fbdev driver and YasT2. I then specified the fbdev driver for X configuration because the ati driver of XF4 gave me some trouble at the beginning. I had then to recompile a kernel removing the ati driver, leaving only aty128fb. I guess you don't have to do this. Finally, I changed a little the XF86Config file so it takes "ati" instead of "fbdev", the other parameters being correct.
Damir,
Hmm, I don't know how to use "fbdev" and the man page is too obtuse this time. Got any tips on documentation I might read on this, for a beginner (me)?
Thank you!
Roger in San Francisco :) -- SuSE 7.3 on PowerBook G3 Lombard/Bronze (333MHz pre Firewire)
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