On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:36:26AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > That gives me an idea. I tried to put Linux on a 9500 I have, but the > > > root floppy disk kept giving errors. I have another Power Computing > > > machine on the 'scrap heap' as you say, I think I'll try it on there. > > > > Hey, it works fine on the other machine. I even tried booting the > > exact same system (I have it on an external SCSI drive) on the other > > machine, and no problem. So there must be some rare low-level > > incompatibility between my video card (a Mach 64) and ncurses or maybe > > even the kernel. > > What mach64 version?? Are you using atyfb? The Lombard also has a mach64 > series chip ... > > > Is there a list I could take this too now, or someone who would be > > interested? > > linuxppc-dev, but BenH is listening on debian-powerpc as well. >
Well video=atyfb was no joy on this problem. It still crashed in the same place. It gets a few more letters put on the screen before it goes though. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
