everything seemed ok, now. X is running, enlightenment with "aqua_" theme :) ok. the problem is that almost every program I try to run gives me a segmentation fault message.
f On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:16:35 +0100 (CET), Mich Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > On 14 Feb, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through > cyberspace: > > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 13:46 -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0200, Felipe Fonseca wrote: > >> > yes. that looks like a problem... > >> > > >> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:02:13 +0200, Eddy Petrisor > >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >"00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host > >> > > >bridge (rev 03) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand > >> > > >Central I/O (rev 02)" > >> > >> Actually, the 1st gen PCI powermacs had almost no PCI devices. > > Not really true.... they don't have a high number of PCI devices, but > everything _is_ connected to PCI. > > >> The > >> builtin video is not actually a PCI device. > > Well, though it s not a PCI card, and it is electrically probably not > really compatible to PCI (but who knows...), it does have a PCI > personality on a bus that has PCI semantics. You know, it may have been > designed as a real PCI device, but legend has it that Apple's hardware > engineers were more after design than function.... > > >> You need the controlfb > >> driver in the kernel and the fbdev driver in X. It won't be very > >> fast since it's not accelerated, but it should work. > > This, on the other hand, is the real truth, brother :-) > > > Actually ... control is behind the "chaos" chip which is a PCI device > > Yes and no. It is a PCI host bridge, but unlike 'real' host bridges, it > has no PCI personality on the child bus. So, if you lspci the chaos PCI > bus, there is no chas device on there. > > > (it contains DBDMA engines so one could theorically write some blit > > acceleration there ...) > > No, chaos has no DBDMA engine AFAIK. PlanB has (you are surely confusing > here :-). PlanB could in theory do the bitblit, but noone has succeeded > in making it move data _between_ memory locations. From video to memory, > yes, but not from memory to memory. > > > I'm surprised that chaos isn't showing up there, could be a problem > > with the PCI code on these old machines. > > No, this is a case of 'special' hardware. Nobody will ever know if it is > a hardware bug that was not deemed important enough to fix, or if it is > so be concious design decision. Apple hardware :-) Talk to the Mac68k > guys, they can tell you some :-)) > > Cheers > > Michel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. > 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. > L-1710 Luxembourg | > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " > -- FelipeFonseca http://felipe.hipercortex.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
