Ani Joshi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> >* clgenfb doesn't start on PPC, it oopses in vga16_init (after
> > guessing the board has 32 MB RAM when it has 4). I've sent the
> > ksymoops output to linux-fbdev, so the autho
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Applied to clgenfb, with some slight updates. Should be in
> 2.3.99-pre7-pre9 or so..
Thanks very much!
Is there anything I can do to help fix clgenfb for MacPicasso? Any
printks I can stick into init_vgachip() to help determine why it's
oopsing?
-Adam P.
me suggestions.
I have the latest pppd from Debian potato, but that's for 2.2; and this is with
the stock tree. I'll look for a new pppd and see if that works. Thanks.
-Adam P.
oot with CONFIG_ADB_PMU not defined. More Kosher this way, yes?
Thanks,
-Adam P.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems
> > as 2.2.
>
> What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :)
(Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems
> > > > as 2.2.
> > >
> > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :)
> >
> > (Sorry,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > Applied to clgenfb, with some slight updates. Should be in
> > > 2.3.99-pre7-pre9 or so..
> >
> > Thanks very much!
> >
> > Is there anything I ca
27;m logged in as root. I tried changing
> permissions and stuff but that didn't help.
Have you checked $PATH and $LIBRARY_PATH for root and your users?
-Adam P.
driver? My guess is that the first cut will have to be a
standalone program which magicfilter will have to pipe to, later maybe
it can be integrated into printtool or some such. Maybe a kernel
module?
Zeen,
-Adam P.
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> They did not give any distribution/modification conditions, so to be on
> the safe side, I asked and will hold off forwarding the document until
> they reply. You may end up having to go to them to get it. (No, I'm not
> going to be like the guys
cause of the use of lexx in those
packages, it may exist in some others which use that parser infrastructure...
Zeen,
-Adam P.
quite as helpful a tester/codeveloper as I could be- Geert gave
me
some tools, but I've yet to really use them :-).
For more details, including info on how you can help, see the fbdev mailing list
thread starting at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu/msg02291.html
Zeen,
-Adam P.
refer to my post to this bug of 13 Apr 2000 16:11:53 - for
the one-line patch that fixes this. It would be a shame to have potato
ship with this broken, when a fix has been known for six weeks, though
it's really my fault for not using the BTS properly... :-(
Thanks very much,
-Adam P.
out the
boot-device parameter and set it automatically, as part of the "Make Linux
bootable" step? I know, "well then, write the patch," okay, someday. Just a
wishlist/suggestion, from someone who hasn't actually tried the boot
floppies, just heard that this step is necessary. :-)
Zeen,
-Adam P.
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:08:56AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > 2) why you don't WANT to use yaboot on oldworld hardware:
> > > [snip] first let us go over the main complaints about quik:
>
Okay, I've clearly bitten off more than I can chew. But let's give this a
try...
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > because there is no way to find out that
> > > /dev/hda3 == /yu
is not
> > packaged for powerpc.
>
> What's the problem? I installed communicator-smotif about one month ago. Works
> like a charm (as far as any Communicator can ;)
I think the problem is the "communicator" _all package, which depends on 4.73
and
conflicts with all other versions. This is a problem for PPC!
-Adam P.
o sound familiar. It needs to be in COFF
> > format. How would one make such a thing? Let me guess: it's a
> > propriatary Apple format which isn't supported except for some hacked
> > together binutils from four years ago that everyone would just as soon
> > forget ever existed. Am I close?
>
> of course not! COFF is a standard executable format used by some
> unices, including Digital UNIX. all that is required to get a COFF
> format kernel is:
Note that this is automatically done by make-kpkg. If you have a kernel-image
package
installed, just copy /boot/vmlinux.coff-`uname -r` to the floppy.
Zeen,
-Adam P.
that
help
stuff work better on PPC and ARM (like Kerberos!).
Zeen,
-Adam P.
nswer, please tell us
what kind of PowerMac you have, as that will
determine which bootloader to use.
-Adam P.
any posts proposing a solution.
Sounds like trouble I've had on a Mach64VT. The solution in my case will
(probably) be to use Geert's atyfb debugging tools to tweak some settings and
make it work, then add the new settings to atyfb.c in the kernel source. No
fun. :-(
Check the archives at http://linux-fbdev.org/ for details.
HTH,
-Adam P.
Manuel Arriaga wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> I have the option to buy either a 7300 or a 7600; so these are "safe"
> choices, right?
>
> I have been "digging" around the "linux on ppc" sites and it seems that I can
> use either quik or miboot...
I
FASSINO Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > The easiest way I've found to get it going is to use the MacOS utility Boot
> > Variables, which lets you set all the OF vars
> > including the boot device and file. The boot device will be complicated,
[because it doesn't work]
Tried it also with video=atyfb:vmode:18,cmode:8. It doesn't even clear
the OF screen, just prints the offb starting message there and then
hangs.
This is on a StarMax 3000/160 with Mach64 VT 1M and MacPicasso 540 (run
by offb).
Zeen,
-Adam P.
o, and its dirs in the kernel source,
right?
But seriously, old arches are supported better under Linux than others because
folk with old boxes make it so. Anyone have some idea where an eager
oldworld-owning developer might look in the kernel source to write a patch?
Thanks,
-Adam P.
;t have said it better myself.
So, do we get a 2.2.15 kernel-image for those installing on oldworlds? Or maybe
I should file an important bug against 2.2.17?
Zeen,
-Adam P.
uch better!
Hamish, could you please add a Build-Depends line to the .dsc file, so this kind
of thing doesn't happen in the future?
And whoever's responsible for PPC package building, could you please build a new
.deb with t1lib?
Thanks,
-Adam P.
> - Derek
>
> On 13 Jul, H
track down), so I'm accepting contributions
(please cc the list).
The address is: http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html
Zeen,
-Adam P.
and a few others I'm interested in following (like
> one for squishdot and one for zope-worldaccess).
>
> If you want your PowerPC-related bugs to show up in the list, be
> sure to mention that they're PowerPC-related in the Subject lines
> of your bug reports!
Will (continue to) do.
Zeen,
-Adam P.
because it doesn't come preinstalled on any PPC machines, I can't say I
disagree with
your assessment of its suitability for newbies.
So maybe the install docs or release notes should say something to
this
effect?
-Adam P.
ll, and can
upgrade
without having to reboot to a rescue disk, and...). Well, I could go on...
I recommend Debian to all newbies who ask, and offer to help with installation,
since that
is the only newbie-hostile part of it. IMHO. :-)
A positive rant, for a change. :-)
-Adam P.
without being at
the machine, but there's probably someone here who knows what else could be
going wrong.
Hope this helps in some small way,
-Adam P.
Aaron Davies wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > When you boot, does the "Partition check" for that drive list your
> > partition?
> > Later, does it say something like "Mounting root partition read-only"?
> > Does it
> > add t
iticisms in the press against a lot of free software in
GNU/Linux systems. I like to call it "wizards done right".
Just my $.02 worth. Thanks for a great press release!
-Adam P.
de for backspace on that keyboard? I know the
codes are completely different for ADB and psaux.
-Adam P.
dependency violation when
I install it.
Oh- this new ppp works just fine with a 2.2 kernel.
Thanks,
-Adam P.
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just built and installed a 2.4.0-test6 kernel, and with the attached
> patch it builds and boots just fine.
Oops, forgot the attached patch. :-)
-Adam P.
--- 2.4.0-test6/arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_time.c Mon Jul 17 11:18:05 2000
+++ li
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I just built and installed a 2.4.0-test6 kernel, and with the attached
> > patch it builds and boots just fine. The only trouble is that PPP
> > doesn't work.
> >
> > So I got the binary ppp PPC packag
ing- there are just a couple of
duplicated symbols in kernel/ and arch/arm/kernel/ ...)
But since PPP isn't working, we're not there yet, and I'll go with one of the
PPC-specific trees, maybe bitkeeper as you suggested. It'll be about a week
before
I can try again.
> My only stopper for 2.4 full time is Mol.
Haven't tried it. :-)
Thanks,
-Adam P.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > On a "philosophical" note, since they are so close to working, I'd prefer to
> > use stock kernels and bug report against those, with as little patching as
> > possible, it seems this will hasten
Adrian Cox wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Having five people maintaining five PPC trees and occasionally sending
> > patches to
> > Linus seems the wrong way to maintain an architecture, and an implicit
> > resignation to the total worthlessness of any PPC mate
ock and e.g.
separate trees, this would explain the brokenness for me where it works for
others. (This is how we got started on philosophy of multi-arch software
management.)
-Adam P.
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u to look
over), and its various pieces for easy install without using dpkg, at:
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html
-Adam P.
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able, but that's pretty empty speculation based entirely on hearsay
and roughly similar symptoms described elsewhere.
If there's a new compiler snapshot that builds 2.4 kernels, I'd love to try it
out...
Zeen,
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make this a lot easier. But I'm not on top of the latest in
that area.
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tions (the "pen-knife" approach)
as appropriate. I'll try building and testing without that CFLAGS
value, and see what breaks, when I get some more time. :-)
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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--- gnucash-1.4.5/src/engine/util.c.bak Sun Se
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Then gnucash is built using -fsigned_char for the whole package, so in
>
> So IMHO the correct fix is to make gnucash `charsafe' so it can be compiled
> without -fsigned-char.
I agree completel
Chris Baker wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Is someone else going to test it without -fsigned_char, and debug if it
> > fails? If
> > nobody replies, I'll get around to it "eventually" (it takes several
rnel-headers, and kernel-image
Debian packages (where "image" includes the vmlinux kernel, the .coff kernel to
boot from a floppy, the config file, and the modules directory).
Personally, I like having my kernels in Debian packages, because it's easier to
install, upgrade, remove, and detect conflicts in a consistent way across the
system.
HTH,
-Adam P.
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Chris Baker wrote:
>
> > It builds okay without -fsigned-char. Now, instead of not printing
> > any fractional decimal places, it prints too many:
> >
> > 14.11000
> >
> > Still, better than nothing
>
> True. I
7;s such a little file too, maybe it's trying to unroll some recursion
and infinite looping? I haven't really looked into it.
It would be nice to get this working, I know my 160 MHz 603e can go
faster than the 13 MFlops it gets with blas1. :-)
Zeen,
-Adam P.
Welcome to the
any problems. The
> problem I have is that the DNS *is* being automatically updated for the
> Win2000 clients but *not* for the Linux machines. I can't work out why.
Maybe for the same reason that using Win2K as a domain controller is *banned* at
MIT!
http://web.mit.edu/is/help/win2000/
nst kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac, and hope the change gets into
2.2r1. (Not that 2.2.17 boots on my
StarMax 3000 with quik, but it might be helpful for some others.)
Thanks much once again!
-Adam P.
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to the best software in the world today cafe!
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work.
> >
> > Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> I was thinking along the lines of a patch to drivers/net/Config.in to say
> "PCI NE2000 and clones (see help)" and then put the list of clones in the
> appropriate section of Documentation/Configure.help.
> Also, in the rtl8139 section, it says so
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > Patches are attached vs. 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test8. If they seem good (i.e.
> > if > nobody says they're bad :-), I'll forward them.
>
> [...]
>
> > -CONFIG_UNIX=y
> > +CONFIG_NETLI
have now are a problem, not sure of the reason. It's
currently being discussed in the "Motorola StarMax... quandry" thread.
-Adam P.
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > dhcp works fine with a kernel that supports it. As you say, the Debian i386
> > kernel has it, the Debian pmac kernel doesn't. Why? Got me!
>
> Exactly what is needed?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> > The ThinkPad works fine. Is there a known problem with the dhcp package
> >> > or is this really evidence that di
t http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ ,
with raidtools2.
-Adam P.
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t 40k
free.
Of course there's the headache of registering existing files as an installed
package, though I suppose that has to be done for base-files anyway.
As you say, "maybe someday", the need is not that great but it seems a
reasonable
wishlist bug.
-Adam P.
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gainst raidtools2 for pointing to an obsolete location).
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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pt for ppp, but we've discussed
that before. Couldn't get -test8 to build. Maybe -test6 will work with
tdfx-fb?
HTH,
-Adam P.
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Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
> How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use bootx?
>From my original post, as quoted in your email:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > In the meantime, I built -test6 successfully, and it boots with quik on a
> > StarMax (pmac 4
.) also work with old kernels? And
how stable is woody on PPC these days, now that the glibc fix is in?
Thanks for the rest of the tutorial, I hadn't heard of ofpath before!
-Adam P.
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This hasn't come back to me from the lists in the 16 hours since I sent it, so
let's try again:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:09:27PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > > This reminds me, atlas doesn't bu
ar default CFLAG? (The package seems to
be charsafe, so the flag is not necessary, and it causes a comparison to fail
with the result that it doesn't display currency fractions, e.g. cents.) If
not, I'll follow up on that bug (#69866) with a strong recommendation to remove
that flag.
-Adam P.
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ain that part of the 3/1 Kerberos patch is necessary as well.
The patch would
close bug #50337, which is nearly a year old!]
Back on topic, the Kerberos patch might help you to fix that part of OpenOffice.
Thanks,
-Adam P.
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Momchil Velikov wrote:
> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Adam> Do you know where I can find the "long version" of what you've
> Adam> "simply stated" above, so I can convince him to get
-line patch against the gnome-core source
package which makes it work on internal speakers too. If you're interested, I
can send it. But first try gmix and see if any of the sliders change the volume
for you.
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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Rob Andrews wrote:
> In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > package which makes it work on internal speakers too. If you're
> interested, I
> > can send it. But first try gmix and see if any of the sliders change the
> volume
> > for
be modified to support dmasound.
I think this is a semantic issue, in terms of definitions of internal and
external speakers. On PCs, internal speakers only beep; on Macs they do
everything.
But at this point it becomes an issue for linuxppc-dev, where the kernel hackers
hang out.
-Adam P.
documentation." Great, so you can't use a "stable" kernel without
being on a list with hundreds of posts a week!
(Can you tell I'm still bitter about it? I'm embarassed to say how close I came
to switching to NT...)
Glad that's over. Anyway,
rc lines (just like the deb lines, but with
> deb-src instead, usually), you can type (as root)
>
>apt-get -b source
>
> which will download and build the package; or, as an ordinary user
>
>apt-get source
or "fakeroot apt-get -b source package" will build the
osed-updates, with only i386 debs for now
but the others should be autobuilt at some point... :-)
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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a...? I did it via dselect rather than apt-get, that's
the only difference I can think of...
-Adam P.
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William Crowshaw wrote:
> For more clues about my problem, I could post all the gory details startx
> outputs. My monitor is a simple Apple Multiscan 15".
Could you post the gory details? It's hard to do much without them...
-Adam P.
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se circumstances
which lead to this error, I can link some binaries (with largely the
same libs- actually, a superset of them) without getting it.
Oh- this is on a woody system with glibc 2.2-4.
Clueless,
-Adam P.
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e the thread "compiling atlas2 on athlon" which I cc'd to this
list from debian-beowulf, started 9/13 and ran into October.
Daniel Jacobowitz was looking into it, sample short cpp output which shows the
bug is at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/muladd.E .
HTH,
-Adam P.
28 are fine with X4...
Thanks,
-Adam P.
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got there yet, though many of the
packages were missing Build-Depends lines for a long time...
Zeen,
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Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > Then I tried startx using XF86Config.new, but got the message that it
> > needed a Driver line in the Device section. So I copied the line
> > ``Driver "fbdev"'' from the Screen section to the Devi
) that works, linked from
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-ppc-bugs.html . Also, 2.2.18pre21 in woody
(ard soon 2.2r2?) boots on my StarMax 3000 with quik and has lots of new
options like I
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > > Then I tried startx using XF86Config.new, but got the message that it
> > > needed a Driver line in the Device section. So I copied the line
> > > ``Driver &q
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I'll look into the signal 11 in xf86cfg.
>
> I wouldn't bother about it.
>
> If you want to try the ati driver, copying the fbdev Device Section and adding
> Option "UseFBDev" may work. Good luck :
XF4. And the
(unaccelerated?) fbdev driver feels about as fast as the 3.3 accelerated server,
again except for the GNOME logout. So I'm very happy.
Maybe when I try the ati driver with UseFBDev later today I'll see the defects
again, but if it's faster still they may even be worth it. :-)
-Adam P.
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iguring and building their own kernels? Or perhaps
should there have been a postinst in a kernel-image to install
/dev/input and suggest people re-configure gpm and X (maybe via
debconf)?
Thanks,
-Adam P.
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t without the
pointer). Maybe we need some kind of call for testing before a new rev
release, to
catch problems like this?
And thanks everyone for the pointers on the ADB kb. I'll work on it when I get
some time.
-Adam P.
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is the only thing I can't get to work, some sources have
built fine for two months but don't have ppc .debs. (Some have mentioned
trouble with eog and another app or two, I haven't tried those.) I've submitted
Build-Depends for most of them to make up for maintaine
modify it somehow?
Remove this setting. I use the attached script in /etc/init.d to set up
keyboard emulation the way I like it.
Zeen,
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#!/bin/sh -e
echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
echo
Sergio Brandano wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> >Sergio Brandano wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you Ethan. Now I have kernel 2.2.18pre21 up and running, which
> >> is the latest stable from samba. In order to have X11 (old) running,
> >> I had to modify the poi
s since been added to Build-Depends), so doc-specific fonts often don't
work.
Zeen,
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you're talking
> about things that are explained on this page...
Maybe you should get some netiquette. Saying stupid things like this just gets
people mad at you, and puts Debian in a bad light.
With breakage this bad mid-release in stable, and documentation this poor, I
expect
the confu
I can't seem to escape. Until I can
> get back to bash, I have no way of doing anything!
ctrl-alt-F1 gets you to the 1st virtual console (ctrl-alt-F2 to the second,
etc.).
HTH,
-Adam P.
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Chris Bryan wrote:
> on 12/28/00 5:05 PM, Adam C Powell IV at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Chris Bryan wrote:
> >
> >> I'm having similar problems as our other mouse-troubled friend, on a g4
> >> 400.
> >> A couple questions:
> >>
as different kind of
symbol
/usr/include/asm/types.h:15: previous declaration of `__u16'
make[3]: *** [partition.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/modules/openafs/ppc_linux24/obj/vol'
The first bunch I think I understand, but the __u32 and __u16 parts are
beyond me...
Than
des.)
Zeen,
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patch?
Thanks,
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monitor output, for which I have a working
cable to the sun monitor; it works fine in MacOS, and in Linux I get a white
screen with black border and black text: "copying OF device tree... done
booting..." but no console.]
Thanks,
-Adam P.
P.S. The openafs thing I wrote about yesterd
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I'm in trouble, something between the Mach64 onboard video and the VGA->Sun
> > monitor cable just lost it. Fortunately, I have a MacPicasso card which
> > doesn't have a working native framebuffer, but
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