Adam Sjøgren wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:50:07 +0100, nzer wrote: > > >> Would it be possible to get the booting patch mentioned in this > >> slashdot article > > >> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/04/1336222.shtml > > >> Direct Link : > > >> http://lpp.FreeLords.org/ > > >> If it has anything to do with the pc bios probably not but if it > >> just uses the frambuffer loading mechanism which ppc has always > >> used to emulate a console screen then it should work. > > > The patch applies cleanly, but it looks like it only works with > > vesafb, which we don't have. > > It works on my iBook - I think the references to vesafb are just > because the screenmode must be set to something that can display the > image (640x480x8) - using the atyfb on my iBook works just fine.
I didn't see the option to use it in the kernel config so I assumed it really wanted vesafb. Sorry for the confusion. > I tried making an 800x600-image instead, but didn't succeed (black > screen, one garbled line of funny chars and machine hangs). > > The original Debian-theme, 640x480, from the website works fine. This is a problem for Pismos and recent iBooks because aty128fb can't use anything else than the panel resolution yet. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
