video mirror on iBook

[Larry Grover]

Tony wrote:
> I think my problem may lie in that the graphics card in this older
> iBook may not be well supported by radeon driver.  I believe it was
> detected as an ATI Radeon Mobility (9000?) M6.  This iBook runs at
> 600MHz.
> 
> I have another, slightly newer iBook (800MHz) which currently runs on
> Warty.  I was able to use the Hoary Preview Live CD and boot it, made
> the modifications you suggested originally and it worked.  The
> external video came through O.K.  So I know that when I am ready to
> upgrade to Hoary it should be working.  I am a little concerned with
> stability of Hoary to upgrade just yet.


Well, I've been running Hoary for a couple of months now.  It's been 
pretty stable for the past couple of weeks, but since the release is 
due soon (sometime in April, I think) you may want to wait.


> I then tried modifying the existing Warty installation (pre x.org) and
> have almost got it working.  The external video comes through O.K. but
> the iBook screen has some flickering horizontal lines that I have not
> yet been able to eliminate.


Yup.  That's exactly what I got when I was running Warty.  I think you 
need the latest xorg in Hoary to make this work properly.

Regards,
Larry