On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:32:32PM +0200, Haakon Innerdal wrote: > > Hi gentlemen, > > > > Is there any special magic to apply if I want to run a 2.6.x-amiga kernel? > > (2.6.8-4 was the latest I tried) > > > > First of all, the default built kernel 2.6.8-amiga, is to big for > > amiboot-5.6. > > Any custom built kernel that is accepted in terms of size, only results in > > a grey screen, not booting. > > Try booting with an uncompressed kernel. This might actually explain why I > had problems with the latest kernels, I forgot to replace the uncompressed > one with the newly installed kernel... > Ah, thanks for the tip, I decompressed the debian -built kernel, and I came past the error of kernel to big, but still, it hangs in a grey screen, just like any custom 2.6.8 I try. There is no disk activity after booting, so it seems to just hang. Is there any way to debug what may be wrong at such early stages? I tried a kernel with just the minimum necessarities, but incl. aga-framebuffer, still no luck. Although the 2.4.27 kernel is working great, I would like to investigate what causes this. In time, I'll dig into the linux/amiga port and make any contribution I may have to the further development of this great work. I'm not a kernel -developer, but I have skills in programming.
> IIRC I built 2.6 with gcc-3.3. Try using a cross compiler, instead of 6 > hours it takes only 6 minutes to compile a kernel on my notebook. See > kegel.com/crosstool > Tnx. will look into that, have successfully built a m68k toolchain now, I did such a thing manually some years ago, but that was quite a job, (and I lost the setup in a disc crash) :-( the above adress was a lifesaver tough! > > almost last Q: would a Picasso IV card be a good investment? my goals is > > to get reasonable graphics in both amiga-os, and in m68k/xfree, other good > > (cheap) options? > > I just bought a PIV and a PII+ to replace my broken CV643D, but I haven't > had the time yet to test either of the cards. The PIV is the best graphics > card that exists for Amiga, IMHO, and I think the Linux support is pretty > good. It's been a while that I saw a PIV running and it was printing a lot > of DEBUG messages, but that probably has been disabled in the kernel, and it > should work very well. I liked the CV643D a lot, especially after I managed > to get it to work in my Amiga2000, but I haven't used video on the Amiga > much for a couple of years, I have a network and use mostly the notebook or > an athlon as a display. > Thanks for the info! I'm currently being offered both a CV643D and a PIV, the PIV-guy havent yet answered my interrest in the card, but in light of the above statement, I'll have some patience! :-) > Christian > Regards, Haakon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
