Ok, this is driving me insane. I installed Hardy on my 1.25 Ghz eMac. It booted up with a black screen. I followed crapple's guide, and managed to get X to start by using the driver "fbdev". However, it seems to be possible to get the Radeon driver to work, and support 3d acceleration as well.
Here is what I tried:
*Tried setting driver to "ati" or "radeon". For both of these, the screen flickers twice, then I hear the start up noise with a black screen.
*Compiled the xorg-xserver-video-ati package, no difference.
*fglrx driver won't work, 9200s aren't supported.
*Tried most of these options in various combinations: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man4/radeon.html No effect.
*After exhaustive google searching, I found this relevant thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/34703/focus=34740 I tried basically everything that they tried there. I tried the various modelines, with no effect. Still the screen flickers twice, then goes black.
*The ONLY thing that had ANY effect on the video output was trying various "ConnectorTable" options suggested on that thread. These caused various white lines to appear on the display, then it would go back to a black screen.
Does anyone have any idea what I should do? Has anyone actually managed to get the radeon driver to work on an eMac? What connector table options should I try? Also it seems like there is something about DVI or reversing DDC? What is that?
Oh, and the xorg log file has no apparent errors.