New iBook have a simple but critical problem: sync radeonfb-monitor lcd does not work. This because the iBook-firmware-ID it's changed from "PowerBook6,3" to "PowerBook6,5". Benh have solved the problem... but this patch it isn't (it's strange) in the official patch. Beacuse of Benh have merged is kernel with vanilla => ppc-development-sources will exist any more. The question is: why do not merge in the "gentoo-dev-source" ebuild the patch? This is the link: http://www.mail-archive.com/directfb-dev@directfb.org/msg02436/radeonfb-IGP-linux-2.6.4.patch It must run also on other machines without problem (IMHO). Thanks... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gentoo-dev-sources
I had created a simple how to to solve various problem for new iBook. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=171776&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=detronizator&start=25
Created attachment 32570 [details, diff] RadeonFB 2.6.x cumulative patch
The newest livecd has an updated kernel that works just fine on my ibookG4
