[plug] *debian* on ibook

[Adam Hewitt]

Hi All,

I have managed to get the base install of debian working on my ibook (I
fixed the console-common problem by rebooting *shrugs*) however I am
having a very hard time getting X working. I have followed the
instructions on http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/step_step/index.html
which has told me that I need the xfree86 packages from
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ which I have done, it then
says that in order to get acceleration working you need to compile the
drm-trunk-module which I have also done (against a kernel I compiled
myself from ppckernel.org) and I got an 'unresolved symbol' error on
radeon.o and rage128.o (I think?)

If I then modprobe 'radeon' I get:

unresolved symbol radeon_ioremap_agp_free
unresolved symbol radeon_ioremap_agp

and needless to say X fails to start. I then thought stuff this I will
do it without acceleration first, and was unable to get that working
either and to make matters worse I dont think it is even logging the
attempt (my /var/log/Xfree86.log.0 file doesn't add anything after the
original few attempts)

Has any managed to get Debian working under a new ibook (bought this
year) and if so did you manage to get everything working (I don't want
to have to buy a seperate USB modem...if thats the case I will be
installing OSX back on here today)??

Thanks for your time,

Adam.