On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:17:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) > > > > > > > > Here is the diff for the config, from your -small config. I really > > > > don't know which of these were essential, I ended up with only 59k > > > > free space on the floppy. But I guess that's enough. > > > For now it is. Altough I think most of the options you enabled are not > > > necessary. Could you test, if the keyboard also works for loading the > > > initrd when you only enable these two settings: > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=m > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y > > > > I tried several times to make kernels witha smaller set of options, > > but they all failed to boot, or else panicked after booting. I guess I > > got very lucky the first time. I'm sure we must not need IDE and SCSI > > drivers, but I didn't have any luck with the them left out. > > > I still had no luck with the 9500, either. The 2.2.20 kernel boots, > > but all 2.4 kernels give the same result: the video is not switched on > > in Linux. Many of the 2.4 kernels boot, I can type in my root login > > and 'reboot' blind, and the computer reboots. But they don't drive > > video. The 9500 is different from many Macs in that its video board is > > not built-in, but instead hangs off the PCI bus. This may have > > something to do with the problem. > > Can you post a lspci output when running the 2.2.20 kernel ? This sounds > suspiciously like a missing fbdev driver for the graphic board.
It says it is a Mach64GX, and I have CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX compiled in to all the ones I've tried; I assume that's the one. 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 02) 00:0f.0 VGA comppatible controller: ATI Technolgies Inc 210888GX [Mach64 GX] (rev 02) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
