On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:18:32 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Ralph Siegler <rsieg...@rsiegler.org>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 00:39:37 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> The display on this emac goes blank right at the end of booting, even
>> though display works fine from bsd.rd
>>
>>
>> Not using X and answered "No" to expecting to use X during install.
>>
>> Now emac with radeon is not in the list of supported machines, however
>> since things do work from bsd.rd I was wondering if there was any
>> setting I could "knock out" to just get basic console?
>
> disabling radeondrm should work; see config(8) for details
>
> I've just committed the diff below, which might help (but probably
> doesn't). More likely some changes are necessary in radeon_combios.c,
> in particular in radeon_get_legacy_connector_info_from_table(). As you
> can see, your model (PowerMac6,4) isn't listed there. It might be worth
> trying to map your "PowerMac6,4" to CT_MINI_INTERNAL or CT_MINI_EXTERNAL
> in that function and see if that makes things work.
>
>
Thanks very much for replying, I'll try cvs fetch and build tonight.
Also, I saw another message in this newsgroup from a while ago with
tentative radeon_combios.c patch for similar issue, just studying that
file and playing around I might stumble onto something. good for
learning and waking up the long dormant part of my brain for C system
coding
