On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > My two Quadra 950's work great with the all the modern debian > > > kernels. > > > > There is one annoying bug that affects my 950. Sometimes the IOP ADB > > driver gets confused during ADB probing and you end up with no > > keyboard or mouse. By "sometimes", I mean about 1 boot in 5. I've > > tried to fix it, but no joy so far. But, if you get past the probe, it > > seems to be fine. If this is a problem, you could always boot single > > user, so that the boot process never gets to mount anything r/w unless > > the keyboard works. > > How about re-probing the ADB bus later on (from the booted system) when > no devices have been found? I think the probe thread gets deadlocked... > (I recall this wasn't really possible way back when, but with all the > PowerPC work gone into the kernel, it might stand a better chance now.) > > Anyway, four out of five working isn't half bad. I recall one quirky > driver (Mac SE??) that worked one out of five or so. Mac IIsi (aka Egret) ADB driver probably. It appeared on the LC III and IIvi/IIvx as well. You'd be lucky if it worked at all after 2.2 kernels. -f > Michael > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
