Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 19:56 +0200, Emmanuel Galatoulas wrote: > Guy Yasko wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Linux kernels are still not booting on my 12" G4 1.5GHz Powerbook 6,8. > >To recap the situation, the kernels I've tried to boot haven't gone > >past "setup_arch:bootmem" since 2.6.11.12, which work

Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-11-12 Thread Guy Yasko
On 12.11.2005, Emmanuel Galatoulas outgrape: > exactly the same here i have got the very same model (Powerbook > 6,8) since June and I have not been able to boot anything newer than > 2.6.11. Even precompiled kernels do not boot and I very regret about > that because I have not been able to

Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-11-12 Thread Emmanuel Galatoulas
Guy Yasko wrote: Hello, Linux kernels are still not booting on my 12" G4 1.5GHz Powerbook 6,8. To recap the situation, the kernels I've tried to boot haven't gone past "setup_arch:bootmem" since 2.6.11.12, which works fine. 2.6.12 through 2.6.15-rc1 do not. I've been trying various .configs,

Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-11-12 Thread Guy Yasko
Hello, Linux kernels are still not booting on my 12" G4 1.5GHz Powerbook 6,8. To recap the situation, the kernels I've tried to boot haven't gone past "setup_arch:bootmem" since 2.6.11.12, which works fine. 2.6.12 through 2.6.15-rc1 do not. I've been trying various .configs, including those fro

Re: 12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> good display clarity (I mainly use aterms on fluxbox though) That should be ok, though if the dispay is a 6 bits panel, you may want to add option "FBDither" "true" to the "Device" section of the nv driver in xorg.conf > wireless networking (I expect to have to buy a wireless adapter)

12'' Aluminium G4 PowerBook dilemma

2005-10-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Sorry to repost. I'm in a serious dilemma. I rather stupidly bought a G4 powerbook as it was at a reduced price and thinking it had ok debian/linux support. I'm wondering if I should try and take this back to the shop, swap it with a colleague's G4 ibook or soldier on to try to make it work, foll