Subject: Re: Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 and Power Mac G4 w/Radeon - Absolute newbie
From: Juan Manuel Palacios (jmpalacios@mac.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 20:22:50 MST
Hello Aram and welcome to the list. Just like you I am new here but
I think I can help you a bit with general suggestions. The information
you provide as to why your graphic environment is not working at full
resolution is a bit too vague for us to help you with exact and clear
instructions. You have to tell us something more precise for what you've
done and the errors you got. What exactly did you write in your
yaboot.conf file?, have you tweaked your XFree86Config-4 file to test
other settings than the defaults? are the modules for your graphic card
loaded?
Well, first of all I think I should ask you if you are informed
about the things I just asked you here. Why don't you try issuing the
fan "lsmod" and tell me what it says.
If you tell me about these things I could be of more help to you,
but it's hard debugging any problem with the little info you provided.
Regard,...
Juan.
On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 03:04 PM, Aram Kudurshian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I guess I'd better introduce myself before I pose my first question.
> I'm
> Aram Kudurshian, a senior in high school here in France. This is my
> first
> experience with an operating system other than Mac OS 9/X and frankly
> am at
> a loss but am ready to learn. Anyway, on to my query...
>
> I'm using a PowerMac Dual G4 and have set up the SMP w/ the aid of a
> friend.
> The only problem now is that neither he nor I can figure out how to
> enable
> the Radeon graphics card so that KDE is in a higher resolution than
> 640x480
> and at a higher depth.
>
> A quick search among the archives shows a couple of queries but due to
> my
> absolute little knowledge of YDL, I have no idea what needs to be done.
> I've tried setting up the Radeon through the Yaboot config file through
> the
> command append="video=radeonfp (etc) but haven't got it to work. Can
> anyone
> help me out (using simple English if possible).
>
> Thanks, Aram
>
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