Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-22 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:36, Holger Levsen wrote: Some more information from a private disucssion on IRC, p2-mate is the quik maintainer: Aug 11 10:12:16 p2-mate, have you seen http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00073.html

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 15:33, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Aye, agreed, although I'm not sure that it's _all_ done in the ROM, ISTR from poking about in the miBoot / BootX source a

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 14:46, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: All that's missing for Wallstreets to boot from quik with accelerated video, it would seem, is a little video hardware initialisation; that step _should_ be derivable from the ATI documentation. L

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-11 Thread Simon Stapleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:17, Ben Racher wrote: So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video acce

Re: Wallstreet + quik + atyfb = crash

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stapleton
On 18 Jul 2006, at 13:17, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:31 AM, Simon Stapleton wrote: Hrm. This might be a useful link, http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom- serve/cache/1043.html Thanks Simon! That's extremely helpful. One question: Does the information there apply to 2.6

Re: Wallstreet + quik + atyfb = crash

2006-07-18 Thread Simon Stapleton
On 17 Jul 2006, at 07:51, brian wrote: on my powerbook3400 where i just got quik going, i just double checked -- i have no video options set at all. Interesting. A friend of mine has an "original" (3400-based) G3, and is having video issues. I'll get him to try this. i do have apparentl

Wallstreet + quik + atyfb = crash

2006-07-16 Thread Simon Stapleton
So, I'm back on my Wallstreet, which I bought back in '99 or so as a Linux machine, and then moved to OSX in 2001. For teh last year or so, it's lingered, mildly unloved and gathering dust, and I decided to get it back on Linux as a test platform. So, as per my other post, I have it up and

Quik booting Wallstreets - a howto of sorts

2006-07-16 Thread Simon Stapleton
First off, I've replied offlist to Ben Racher on this, but here's a bit of a howto on getting quik booting working on a Wallstreet powerbook with 2.6 initrd kernels (it probably works for other oldworld powerbooks too and might be useful for other machines with horribly busted firmware and