Brice Goglin wrote: > 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.
I had a problem like this. If I installed a nic (3com, tulip, or amd pcnet32), X wouldn't work. I forgot the details now. > > 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] > -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
