On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:15, you wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:48:01PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > Hi Amadeu, > > > > I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded your > > mail to me. > > > > I'm also from Brazil (UNICAMP) and I'm running debian on that machine, > > I'm using linux 2.6.6 with the attached patch. Just note that on 2.6 my > > video > > The attached patch seems to be for 2.4.26 though.
There were 2 files attached. One for 2.4.26 and other to 2.6.6 > > card is not supported (it's a s3 trio), with 2.4 it's supported but it's > > monochrome (blue actually). Since I use the machine as server I don't > > care. > > Can you please try : > > 1) both the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 debian-powerpc kernels ? > > 2) booting d-i on your box with : > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-p >rep.initrd (2.6.8 kernel) > > and : > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/2.4/vmlin >uz-prep.initrd (2.4.27 kernel). I'll try then I mail you. > And tell us about your experience. I don't think the s3 trio fb is builtin > in those, but please give the serial console a try and tell us how this > works. > > Also, consider filling a bug report against kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc and > kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc for all the problems you see, and asking for > the inclusion of s3fb or whatever its name is. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2814 It doesn't compile, it was not ported. I don't think it worth porting, it's too old and people who have old ppc machines use them as server. But if you can solve this problem it's a plus. > > I already submitted those patches to debian people and they said it were > > to be included in sarge, but I don't know if it's... Leigh said he has a > > better and > > Whose debian people, what is your bug report # ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/07/msg00490.html You, Sven Luther! :D -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri --------------------------------------- Engenharia de Computacao 2001 - UNICAMP GPSL - Grupo Pro Software Livre Cell..: +55 (19) 9165 8010 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 17249123 GPG: 0xB640E1A2 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net
