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 Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: > Yeah, I was looking directly at pre_boot_ppc.c, which seems to be > doing a bunch of register writes on ati cards. Apple's BootX seems > to do pretty much everything through the forth interpreter, which > makes it a bit trick

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 while back

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
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 while back that > it does a certain amount of video configuration itself. I wonder > what OSX's BootX

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 Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:41:40PM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote: > On 19 Aug 2006, at 13:43, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > >It does not surprise me at all. It is not the fault of Quik, it is > >simply that OF is completely broken on OldWorld PowerMacs. Those > >machines were never intended to be booted

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 way

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
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 way > BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the various gubbins) > from a BootX / miBoo

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 August 2006 09:33, Simon Stapleton wrote: > On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote: > Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a > difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way > BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the variou

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: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
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 > acceleration that is issued by quik when you first load the kernel. I've > been using: > video=atyf

Quik and atyfb

2006-07-15 Thread Ben Racher
So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video acceleration that is issued by quik when you first load the kernel. I've been using: video=atyfb:vmode:16,cmode:32,mclk:67 However, it doesn't seem to l