Hi Marco, > First off, excuse me for the long 'radio silence'. I have been very busy > with > university and what time I spent on my IA-64 hardware was mostly with > OpenVMS.
No problem. I didn't know that there was an ia64 port of OpenVMS. Did you get 3D hardware acceleration with this? > About Linux IA-64 and accelerated graphics, has there been news to report > as of late? Tony just asked Linus to pull various fixes and I've noticed that the patch I've adapted to allow AGP memory binding was in the list (http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=132026804220211&w=2). W.r.t. 3D graphics, everything is now running fine on my side. Next big step will probably be deeply testing forthcoming GNOME 3.0 in Wheezy (http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.0-status.html). And also report/fix unaligned accesses (e.g. Xorg, ioquake3). But IMO, more serious issues surfaced. More below. > I think it's perhaps best if I do a complete reinstall one of these days. > Are > much of the mentioned fixes included with the "testing" distribution? In > other words, what would you recommend me? Well, you simply cannot install Wheezy as-is on ia64 at this time :-(. Indeed, I don't know if Debian Installer team is aware of this problem, but Wheezy netinst CD-ROM simply cannot be booted: EFI fails to load anything. I've noticed that the netinst CD-ROM partition layout is quite different between Squeeze and Wheezy. Could this be the root problem? However, you can upgrade to Wheezy from a running Squeeze install. Latest 6.0.3 netinst CD-ROM works fine (cmd64x driver issue has been fixed). From there, simply modify /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Wheezy and you're gone. BUT! Don't upgrade the following packages: - initramfs-tools: version 0.99 in Wheezy is totally broken and generates unbootable initrd images. I've bisected the problem but didn't get any feedback recently (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638068). Stay with initramfs-tools 0.98.8 - since initramfs-tools 0.99 cannot be installed, you're stuck with kernel < 2.6.39. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.38 (linux-image-2.6-mckinley 2.6.38+34 and linux-image-2.6.38-2-mckinley 2.6.38-5 - lastly, don't upgrade udev > 164 otherwise you'll get nearly empty /dev and error message at startup making system takes ~3 min. to get login prompt (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647825). So, hold on udev, libudev0 and libgudev-1.0-0 164-3 (164-4 shoud also work but never reached Wheezy). Hope this helps, Émeric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAA9xbM4=Ldvdsg=VJOOA6UFRn0GsepiJRvnz2Y=rvkah+2m...@mail.gmail.com
