Powerbook 17" (5,7) setup issues

[arnaudsj]

Hi,

I am new to Fedora Core and I have run successfully Gentoo & Ubuntu Dapper on my powerbook in the past year, but I have decided to try to run FC5 because all the development that I do ends up running on RHEL 4/CentOS 4 servers, so I figured it would be much easier to work on the same core distro (plus I really like yum

Anyway, after running the FC5 install from the DVD in text mode (because the standard graphic one would display a black screen), I managed to login, run all the updates, but I can't fire X using startX (black screen again), nor can I run system-config-display (black screen again). So I wondered if there is any ressource that I missed that showed how to get X on FC5 running on a Powerbook 17' (Alu).

Here is the 2 Xorg.conf I tried so far (the first one is generated by FC5, the second by YDL Xauth which I grabbed from 4.1 YDL repos and installed with no problems):

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.

	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AllowMouseOpenFail" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "ati"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
	Option	    "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

Now the one YDL Xauth generated:

# File generated by Xautoconfig.
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"XFree86 Configured"
	Screen		0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice	"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice	"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

       RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
       FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"dbe"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"fbdevhw"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"type1"
	#Load	"dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Keyboard0"
	Driver		"keyboard"
# Change "XkbModel" to "macintosh_old" if you are using
# the deprecated adb keycodes.
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Mouse0"
	Driver   	"mouse"
	Option   	"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option   	"Protocol"	"IMPS/2"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
	ModelName	"Monitor Model"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	30-130
	VertRefresh	50-160

EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Card0"
	### Available Driver options are:-
	#Option	"SWcursor"
	Option	"HWcursor"
	#Option	"PciRetry"
	#Option	"NoAccel"
	#Option	"ShadowFB"	"true"
	Option	"fbdev"	"/dev/fb0"
	Driver	"radeon"
	BusID	"PCI:0:16:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Device		"Card0"
	Monitor		"Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth	16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes 		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes 		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes 		"1440x900"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group 0
	Mode 0666
EndSection

Thank you in advance for any tips/clues!

Cheers!

Sébastien

P.S. I have also an PCMCIA Atheros based wireless card which worked great under Gentoo & Ubuntu, and I wondered as well if anybody had any sucess setting that up (if anybody got Airport Extreme to work, that would be even nicer

[AliasN]

I'd suggest first backing up both configs, then replacing the FC5's Monitor and Card sections with YDL's. If not that, then try these (try using these suggestions seperately and together):
1. switching the line that says "ati" (in the Device Card0 section) to "radeon".
2. Commenting out the line that says UseFBDev
3. Adding the line BusID "PCI:0:16:0" at the bottom of the Device Card0 section (this should definately be there, either way, on a PPC system)
4. Replacing the Monitor's HorizSync and VertRefresh with YDL's values

[arnaudsj]

Thanks AliasN, I had tried already most of those tricks without any success.

What did work was to take the YDL config and replace the driver from ati to fbdev. Now X is running, I am not sure yet why ati or radeon don't work in FC5 though, if anybody has any idea that might still be useful.

In the meanwhile, I also got madwifi running so wireless now works as well!

Now I am off to have fun to get some of the rest of the stuff running (pbbuttons, right click shortcut, etc...)

Cheers!

Sebastien