external VGA output of an iBook G3 800 MHz 12 inch running Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 11:04:51 PDT 2007


On 6/2/07, Pierre Bauduin <pierre at baudu.in> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I have bought a mini-VGA to VGA adapter for my iBook G3 800 MHz 12 inch.
>
> When I use the adapter to connect an external VGA display to my iBook G3:
> - in Mac OS X, everything is fine, I can see my desktop both on the iBook
> LCD display and on the external VGA display
> - in Debian GNU/Linux, I can see my desktop on the iBook LCD display, but I
> see nothing but a grey screen on the external VGA display
>

get rid of the usefbdev option.

Alex



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