LinuxPPC R5 on PowerBook Series 1999

[Stephen Edie]

The new Powerbook G3 problems are quite strange.  There have been reports
of people who's Powerbooks mysteriously start working.  Just keep playing
around with it, and yours may start working as well.


Stephen

>----------
>>From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40 at calva.net>
>>Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999, 11:11 AM
>>
>>
>> Did you try with the "no video driver" option ?
>>
>
>In fact, I tried it with both "no video driver" option checked and
>unchecked.
>
>> This may also be a backlight problem, Apple love changing the way the
>> backlight is controlled from one model to the other. You can try
>> commenting out the backlight control functions in
>>drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c.
>
>Ah-ha...this would make sense...it is consistent with the behavior I'm
>seeing.  I need to get R5 setup on my other machine here before I can
>recompile the kernel without the backlight functions and try it again so it
>may be a week or so before I can do this...maybe I can try it this
>weekend...

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