On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:29:43PM -0700, Michael wrote: > Ok, I stand corrected. I will work with you on this. The 2.6.8 powerpc > kernel-image that I downloaded and installed would not boot a display > unless the kernel argument video=ofonly was passed. I did compile the > Debian 2.6.11 tree and that also would not boot the display without > video=ofonly. I have never tried OFfb (I don't think, or even know if
I am not familiar with of stuff, could you compile a kernel with activated verbose output from rage128fb or hatever it is called ? > video=offb is a viable option) But until I hear back from you I am > going to try and compile the upstream 2.6.12-rc2 kernel that Ben asked Ok, if this solves it, we can backport the fix. Notice that there is a prebuilt 2.6.11 in the archive since yesterday. It seemed to me that the rage related fixes where X/DRI related, not fbdev. > us about. I have the .config file I ran for the debian kernel > compilation if you are interested to see if I configured it wrong. One Euh, yes. > thing I did NOT however do is apply any patches from the kernel-patches > folder that was also installed, still new to this compiling kernel thing. If you used kernel-source-2.6.11, then it is ok, if you used upstream, you can probably ignore the debian patches for now. > Hope that I will be able to help since this is all a learning experience > for me, and some of it is just "clicking" faster than others. > However one thing sticks out to me, are we still talking about Sarge, as > noted in the Subject, because I am unning the unstable tree, which I > was told is Sid. I did run Sarge for a while with no success at the > video that is still plaguing me. You can run sarge with the unstable kernel. I would even recomend it, and provide a backport of the newest kernels and d-i as soon as sarge is out. There may be chance of a 2.6.8 backport of the fix, if we find it. Benh, any comment on this ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]