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Re: Triple boot, Bootcamp, rEFIt and X11 on Macbook Pro: msg#00066

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Subject: Re: Triple boot, Bootcamp, rEFIt and X11 on Macbook Pro

Hi,

> > Do these help you ?
> > http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
> > http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook
>
> Perfect, thanks. I have now X11 and Debian running. :-) (just with
> fglrx, not with synaptics).
>
> What is missing in the page is more information on how to build our own
> kernel, with the specified patches.

That is a good point; I haven't actually gotten around to trying the
patches. I'm living directly off Linus's git tree and things are
mostly working except for a few things.

> All the things that I have try has result in a problem at boot. Most
> of the time, the boot seems ok, but the screen is scrambled, and I
> can't read anything.

Are you using imacfb driver ?
imacfb shouldn't be used when booting from LILO (BIOS emulation).


regards,
junichi
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