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List:       suse-ppc
Subject:    Re: [suse-ppc] PowerBook G3 screen and keyboard problems
From:       Uwe Hees <uwe.hees () rz-online ! de>
Date:       2002-06-14 20:57:42
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on 13.06.2002 23:38 Uhr you <cgdennis@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hello SuSE PPC people
> 
> I'm struggling a bit with SuSE PPC 7.3 on my PowerBook G3 ("Wallstreet"
> 233MHz, 1998 model, with the cheap nasty 800x600 non-TFT screen).
> 
> The SuSE support people have solved some of the problems, but others
> remain.  I've now got XFree86-4 running (Yast2 insisted on installing
> 3.3.6 to start with).
> 
> 1) Parts of the screen occasionally and randomly break up into
> horizontal stripes of colour.  It usually happens when scrolling more
> than a screenful of text.  And it happens both on a tty console, and
> within an X window.

I have the same problems with SuSE 7.3 running on a beige G3/300. There are
also rendering problems in Kontour (i.e. a KDE applciation) when simply
drawing a rect. My guess: an endian problen in the video driver.

> 2) If a tty console is left inactive for more than about ten minutes,
> 
> 3) The keyboard (including the trackpad) has a habit of going completely
> dead with no warning.  This too can happen on a tty console or in X.
> The only way I can find to get out of it is to reboot either via
> command-control-power or by ssh-ing in from my i386 machine.

Best Regards,
Uwe

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