Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, you would need to file a bug report against src:linux.
I can do that if it turns out to fix your issue.
do yo have means of quickly generating a current kernel with that
options back off? I would test it.
In the meanwhile I tried to turn the framebuffer off.
> To test this I would need to run the new kernel without
> the kernel atyfb and see if then Xorg starts.
> I asked for advice on how to
I actually mentioned that in my first post:
video=atyfb:off
You should just be able to append this on the yaboot command line.
I changed my yaboot.conf with:
append="video=atyfb:off"
X11 doesn't start, but the error message changed and goes further.
Before it essentially failed to detect my card, now I see in Xorg.log:
[ 175.081] (**) MACH64(0): Option "shadow_fb" "True"
[ 175.081] (==) MACH64(0): Using XAA acceleration architecture
[ 175.082] (II) MACH64: Mach64 in slot 0:16:0 detected.
[ 175.082] (II) MACH64(0): BIOS Data: BIOSSize=0x0000, ROMTable=0x0000.
[ 175.083] (II) MACH64(0): BIOS Data: ClockTable=0x0000,
FrequencyTable=0x0000.
[ 175.083] (II) MACH64(0): BIOS Data: LCDTable=0x0000.
[ 175.083] (II) MACH64(0): BIOS Data: VideoTable=0x0000,
HardwareTable=0x0000.
[ 175.083] (II) MACH64(0): BIOS Data: I2CType=0x00, Tuner=0x00,
Decoder=0x00, Audio=0x0F.
[ 175.083] (--) MACH64(0): ATI 3D Rage Mobility graphics controller
detected.
[ 175.083] (--) MACH64(0): Chip type 4C4E "LN", version 4, foundry
TSMC, class 0, revision 0x01.
[ 175.083] (--) MACH64(0): AGP bus interface detected.
[ 175.083] (--) MACH64(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected.
[ 175.084] (!!) MACH64(0): For information on using the multimedia
capabilities
of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net.
[ 175.084] (--) MACH64(0): Internal RAMDAC (subtype 1) detected.
[ 175.084] (==) MACH64(0): RGB weight 565
[ 175.084] (==) MACH64(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 175.084] (==) MACH64(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 175.084] (II) MACH64(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC.
[ 175.084] (--) MACH64(0): 800x600 panel detected.
[ 175.084] (--) MACH64(0): Panel clock is 39.992 MHz.
[ 175.084] (II) MACH64(0): Using digital flat panel interface.
[ 175.085] (II) MACH64(0): Storing hardware cursor image at 0x913FFC00.
[ 175.085] (II) MACH64(0): Using 8 MB linear aperture at 0x91800000.
[ 175.085] (!!) MACH64(0): Virtual resolutions will be limited to 4095 kB
due to linear aperture size and/or placement of hardware cursor image
area.
[ 175.085] (II) MACH64(0): Using Block 0 MMIO aperture at 0x90000400.
[ 175.085] (II) MACH64(0): Using Block 1 MMIO aperture at 0x90000000.
[ 175.085] (EE) MACH64(0): Unable to map linear aperture. Invalid
argument (22)
[ 175.089] (II) UnloadModule: "mach64"
I think I don't have enough space for a native kernel build, I'd need to
build in a separate partition, else I need to go all the way to build a
PPC kernel from my x86 Debian laptop where perhaps I need additional
assistance for.
Riccardo
