On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 06:51:02AM -0700, kre...@higgs.linuxfromscratch.org
wrote:
> Author: krejzi
> Date: Fri Jun 28 06:51:02 2013
> New Revision: 11332
>
> Log:
> Further fixups and explanations for the firmware in the ATI driver section.
>
Armin,
many thanks for this - it was enormously helpful in getting my new
A4 ('Trinity') to boot a KMS kernel using a backup from the box it
is replacing. Long story, if anyone cares -
I hadn't realisd the ARUBA needed the BTC firmware - without it I
get a message it is loading the ARUBA microcode, then a timeout,
nnd then the screen is trashed and the box locks up. Not even
MagicSysRQ worked, so nothing made it to the logs. With a boot arg
to override radeon.modesetting it didn't attempt to load Microcode
so a tty worked but gave no indication of what was missing.
BTW - it turned out that the realtek firmware was only needed with
an old -rc kernel, all the recent released kernels seem to find it
ok. Firmware is nearly as much fun as the bios settings.
Now I'm sorting out the (newer) 32-bit system - had to build the
network card into bzImage, "modules_install" reported an error.
Weird, maybe I'll try 32-bit modules whenever I build a 32-bit
system here.
ĸen
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