Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:45:58AM -0600, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > Oh, and the OpenFirmware version doesn't want to boot off of yaboot's > bootstrap partition: it says "hd:2,/vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt > filesystem". I.e. it reaqds yaboot off of there, but doesn't read the > kernel. I'

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:08:27AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:47, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > > Well, the bogomips is 519.37. I'll figure out cpufreq tonight, I > > guess. > > You'll probably need that patch: Yes, I did, thanks.

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:47, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > Well, the bogomips is 519.37. I'll figure out cpufreq tonight, I > guess. You'll probably need that patch: --- 1.6/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c Thu Nov 28 21:31:00 2002 +++ edited/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.cThu

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
> > I've been futzing around with the kernel (2.4.20-ben5) with and > > without the Riva driver, and dpkg-reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 with > > and without the nv module, but I've mostly succeeded in getting it to > > fail in less spectacular ways. > Ok, try this one: http://penguinppc.org/~danie

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Alessandro Astarita
Il 08:39, giovedì 6 febbraio 2003, Orion Buckminster Montoya ha scritto: > My current priority is getting X working with the NVidia GeForce4 420 > Go. Right now booting with video=ofonly when I run startx I just get > vertical lines in two shades of pink, or sometimes blue or green. I have the sa

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 10:12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 08:39, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > I've got Sid booting on a new PBG4 12". The Airport Extreme card > > isn't working yet, but I didn't expect it to. My current priority is > > getting X working with the N

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 08:39, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > I've got Sid booting on a new PBG4 12". The Airport Extreme card > isn't working yet, but I didn't expect it to. My current priority is > getting X working with the NVidia GeForce4 420 Go. Right now booting > with video=ofonly when

Re: PowerBook G4 12": nVidia GeForce 420 Go sure is a problem

2003-02-06 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
Oh, and the OpenFirmware version doesn't want to boot off of yaboot's bootstrap partition: it says "hd:2,/vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt filesystem". I.e. it reaqds yaboot off of there, but doesn't read the kernel. I'm just booting from yaboot in the OS X partition. I haven't gotten around to tryin