Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Hello!
It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2
and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no
dual screen with xrandr which simply doesn't work as it should with
that version of xorg.
If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't get you a working setup to
tune things up, try the setting fbset gives or give xrandr a try.
I only get an undisturbed screen after I changed the default
resolution of 1440x900 with grandr to 1440x960 (Alu PBook G4). As
MacOS X and Ubuntu do use the second tft via DVI it's not a problem
with hardware neither linux. My guess is that xorg 7.2 simply isn't
made for it. It's outdated, btw. 7.3 was released in 2007.
Sad thing that debian testing is still based on that. Same problems
with AMD64, for your reference, it's not a powerpc problem in my
opinion and up to my experience.
That might point to the sad fact, that debian isn't for the desktop
but for servers? Is xorg 7.3 still not enough tested?
Sorry, but it's really boring and I know I could switch.
Ralf
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)
iD8DBQFIDge+tKcsE7vsbMERAibeAJ4tyLpPFMUoDrWPmWMhIl8nlx2TAwCeJ44S
bWtwaJ/gL1LpXwnQvqU8MwU=
=1rSU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: