Hi debian-powerpc, Could somebody have a look at bug #415543? Rob has a strange problem on his PowerMac. Basically, Xorg and network cannot work at the same time. I suspect a hardware or kernel problem, but I am not familiar enough with powerpc to debug further. Help would be appreciated.
TIA, Brice rob wrote: > Hi, first of all thanks for your reply. My /proc/interrupts looks as follows: > > CPU0 > 18: 583 PMAC-PIC Edge MESH > 20: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac > 21: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Output > 22: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Input > 23: 217 PMAC-PIC Level eth0 > 25: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SWIM3 > 27: 1559 PMAC-PIC Edge ide0 > 29: 5078 PMAC-PIC Edge ADB > BAD: 0 > > eth0 doesn't appear to share the interrupt with anything else. I really can't > tell which one my graphic card is supposed to be. The network card's number > is 23 which explains the "Disabling IRQ#23" message when I get thrown out of > the network. On a hunch I moved the ethernet card to another pci slot but > that had the same result. > > The sordid debian installation story for my power mac is as follows. I had > both xfree86 and network working together with sarge, the 2.6.8 kernel and > bootx (the bootloader). With bootx you boot into os9 and then from there boot > into linux. I then completely erased os9 and sarge and installed sarge and > then etch using quik. Quik (also a bootloader) allows you to boot directly > into linux. Because I couldn't get xfree86 or xorg working at all with quik > (similar problem with screen freezing), I installed etch with os9 and bootx. > > Beats me if I broke something along the way... > > Anyways, thanks for your help up till now. At least I know now what > interrupts and IRQs are. As always, more help is appreciated. > > yours, rob homsi > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
