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Jonathan,
I'm doing this msg off-list since it is mainly a FYI type of thing. The monitor
that I was thinking might be available is
however not available, and I'll need to buy one if I'm going to get my powermac
up and running. I might do that but I'll need
to shop around first. Let me know if this drags on too long for you.
-jeff
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Jeffrey Green wrote:
>
>> I have a yes and no answer for you. Yes, I'm not sure whether the
>> problem still exists and consequently am assuming it does. And no
>> since unfortunately my powermac is not hooked up right now and
>> cannot easily be set up since I'm without monitor for the time
>> being. I'm living from a laptop at the moment. If I could get my
>> hands on a monitor, then I'd be willing to set it up (and track down
>> my extra graphics card that I had removed from the system to get it
>> to work).
>
> Hm, thanks.
>
>> One little piece of into that I'm not sure I gave previously is that
>> I think this problem, or a very similar one, appeared in the circa
>> 2002 time frame.
>
> Oh, that's interesting.
>
> [...]
>> One fact is, it did break, it was graphics card related, and
>> modifying the kermel "fixed" it.
>
> Was your fix applied upstream, or was it a local workaround?
>
> [...]
>> So, I'm not sure if I've helped in terrms of what to do with this
>> bug (at this moment). If you'd really like to get to the bottom of
>> the issue, then I might (just might) be able to track a monitor down
>> for some testing purposes.
>
> It's up to you. I'd certainly like to get to the bottom of crashy
> bugs like this to make the behavior of the kernel more predictable and
> change the slope of the following graph:
>
> http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/l/linux-2.6.png
>
> but ultimately, you would be doing the work of testing patches if
> upstream comes up with any. If you don't want to pursue this, one
> possibility might be to document what we know somewhere under
> Documentation/powerpc/ and forget about it until the next person hits
> this.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
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