Rick, On 9/24/21 4:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:30:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> On 9/23/21 23:08, kristoffer...@tuta.io wrote: >>>> I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with >>>> mechanical HDD and stuck here: >>>> i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal >>> What do you mean by "stuck here"? Does it boot up to his point and >>> then nothing further happens? >>> >>> Please provide a little more information and context, i.e. what you >>> did to get there and so on. >>> >>> Adrian >>> >> I'm seeing something similar. using the attached screen of my iBook G4 >> the last lines I see are >> >> [ 30.582886] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Snowy_ >> [ 30.660875] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: direct-loading firmware b43/ucode5.fw >> >> and then the screen has been frozen for hours. I am able to ssh into the >> machine anduse it from there but I have a minimum machine load of about 2. >> I figured it was related to the firmware-amd-graphics package I installed. > I'm seeing the same behavior on a Mac mini G4 (standard spinning rust hard > drive, if it makes a difference). Screen freezes just at the time it > switches from the open-firmware frame-buffer driver to something more native. > I don't know what graphics chip it's using. I can ssh into the machine and > run something to find out, if you can tell me what to run. > > Is there some way to tell it to not try to switch graphics drivers away from > OF-FB? > > Thanks! > Rick >
If you add "video=ofonly" as a kernel command line option, does it work? -Stan
