I have installed Kubunto on an Apple Macintosh Powerbook G4. With a little tweaking I have got Xorg running at the correct screen resolution, with the open source ATI driver.
When I start X (kdm) there is a quality problem of the screen. Fonts have bits missing and images display with edges that have a noisy saturation effect. If I switch to a text prompt (Ctl-Alt-F1 and back again to Ctl-Alt-F7, the effect disappears.
The effect is visible with the various sub drivers of the open source ati driver ('radeon', 'ati' are the only ones that work, so I left it back at the install default, of 'ati'.
The binary blob driver for ATI is, I suspect, a binary blob for x86, at any rate, the installer failed.
The man page for the driver has a confusing list of possible options, none which appear very relevent, too many to randomly try.... well I guess it may come to that...
What could cause this problem?
Happy Australia Day Weekend...
Richard
When I start X (kdm) there is a quality problem of the screen. Fonts have bits missing and images display with edges that have a noisy saturation effect. If I switch to a text prompt (Ctl-Alt-F1 and back again to Ctl-Alt-F7, the effect disappears.
The effect is visible with the various sub drivers of the open source ati driver ('radeon', 'ati' are the only ones that work, so I left it back at the install default, of 'ati'.
The binary blob driver for ATI is, I suspect, a binary blob for x86, at any rate, the installer failed.
The man page for the driver has a confusing list of possible options, none which appear very relevent, too many to randomly try.... well I guess it may come to that...
What could cause this problem?
Happy Australia Day Weekend...
Richard
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