On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:13:32PM +0200, Martin Geier wrote: [snip] > > ./2004-08-22/powerpc-small/floppy/boot.img: Smiling-Mac-icon, then > > the Mac-tux-icon and floppy-activity. Then the screen gets black > > except > > the tux in the middle, which now has (I think) inverted colors and > > the > > monitor goes into standby (using an ATI Mach64). Using a Mac Picasso > > 520 > > nothing happens on screen, only the floppy stops working. > Mmm What kind of ATI MAch64 do you have ? They should be supported : > CONFIG_FB_ATY=y > CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y > CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y Under woody both cards work... Here the kernel-messages concerning the mach64: kernel: atyfb: mach64GX (ATI888GX00) [0x00d7 rev 0x03] 2M VRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 135 MHz PLL, 50 Mhz MCLK, 50 Mhz XCLK kernel: atyfb: monitor sense=0, mode 20 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 kernel: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI Are the debian-installer-floppies using kernel 2.6? Shall I try out 2.6 on woody (mh, i would have to upgrade a lot of things...). Then I could verify if the fbdev works...
> > ./2004-08-22/powerpc-small/floppy/ofonlyboot.img: Smiling-Mac-icon, > > then > > the Mac-tux-icon and floppy-activity. Sometimes the screen gets > > black except > > the tux in the middle, which now has (I think) inverted colors. > > Finally > > the floppy comes out. Inserting the root-floppy and pressing enter > > initiates again floppy-activity, but I can't see anything :( > This seems to work, but you don't have fbdev console. Can you try > setting up a > serial console to understand what is happening ? Mm, i'll try that. Is the kernel configured to print its console to the serial console? [also see below] Or do you expect an OF error message? > > ./2004-08-22/powerpc/floppy/boot.img: Gives a red-crossed tux > > ./2004-08-22/powerpc/floppy/ofonlyboot.img: Also gives a red-crossed > > tux > This i would really like to know why this is happening. Do you know what a red-cross means? Something like "error while decompressing"? > > Some questions: > > Am I running into floppy-errors or is sarge on a PowerMac 9500 not > > yet > > ready? Did somebody get it working on that machine already? > > Whats the difference between boot.img and ofonlyboot.img? > ofonly has the of driver or something like that for fbdev, while the > other has > the real ones. If I understand this correctly, it would be possible to get the "installer-console" via OF to the serial port? What about redirecting the OF to the Mach64? > Both i think, -powerpc is more likely to get your old-world pmac > experiences > people contributing, but -boot is the right place for it. Keep both in > the > loop. done. Greetings, Martin PS: Would you prefer not to get an offlist-reply? -- /ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ\ | PGP-Key 0x43D23ABE available via www.de.pgp.net, see header for fpr | \___________________________________________________________________/
