On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:04:56PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote: > Christian Walther wrote: > >The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no > >problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided > >Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Installer > >created and configured a PReP Boot Partition (8 Megs). > > > >Firewire is working, too. ;-) > > > > I've been fighting with this machine up until a few weeks ago. After > serious problems regarding the zImage build process in vanilla linux > later than 2.6.8, I finally were successful booting 2.6.20 and 2.6.20.1 > which my machines run on now. > > One thing I found out is that the ALSA sound module does not work at > all. Luckily OSS is still in the kernel and so I used its equivalent. > > This might help getting it to work on vanilla kernels: > cat "options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3" >> /etc/modprobe.conf > > Still, X doesn't come up as it can't find any gpu card I throw at it no > matter into which slot. I doubt this is a hardware limitation. fbdev > doesn't do anything either but the Cirrus gpu - removed BIOS chip from > the card - that is in in right now works with cirrusfb at least on the > terminal. > > If you plan to run X too and get it working, I would be overjoyed to > hear how. :)
You could try the fbdev druver to X. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
