On Saturday 13 September 2003 05:57, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote: > I pulled linuxppc-2.5-benh from bitkeeper (ppc), and compiled it. So, > just reporting back progress on my ibook. I get an error when trying to > hdparm's. I send a message about this a while ago to this list, and Ben > gave me a patch. The patch worked fine, and i've read pmac.c code, and > the patch is active in there. I'd like to attach a dmesg, but for some > reason the kernel doesn't write to /var/log/dmesg or > /var/log/kernel.log. > > Secondly, X loaded fine, but gdm failed to load completely (I have no > idea why this is). I also couldn't switch to a virtual console using the > normal combination alt-ctrl-fn-F1.
I have tried that kernel with my powerbook G4 12'' with a geforce, it has compiled well but doesn't boot, I just get a screen with blue vertical lines, I think there is a problem with the new nvidia framebuffer support. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Toni Cerdà Belmonte http://thebigpig.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linux Registered User: 274198 Debian GNU/Linux (2.6.0-test5) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
