On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 07:04, Angus Duggan wrote: > I have just spent most of the last couple of days installing Debian Woody on > a PowerMac 9600/300 and getting kernel 2.4.18 built and (mostly) working. I > have a couple of remaining issues that are plaguing me. > > 1) If I use a pre-built 2.4.18 kernel, or a normal home-built one, the > monitor goes blank on boot-up. I have tried just about all of the > combinations of video=ofonly, video=fbdev and video=imsttfb without > success. The 2.2 installation kernel that I was using to install does > work, and looking at /var/log/dmesg, the difference is that 2.2 thinks the > video board uses the TVP RAMDAC, whereas 2.4 thinks it uses the IBM > RAMDAC.
That misdetection will be fixed in an upcoming release of my stable tree, after beeing broken for more than a year, finally somebody fixed it and sent me a patch ;) (Kudos to Olaf Hering from SuSE) Ben.
