Hi, Okay, I got the new kernel 2.4.8-powerpc image installed on top of testing (woody). I start to like this apt-get dpkg stuff. Coming from rpm, it was somewhat hard to get used to. But I can see why people who have been using it for a while, say good things about it.
About kernel 2.4.8 installed running on iBook 2001 (marble aka p29): - There is some garbage just after kernel starts booting. By garbage I mean some green semi-graphic rectangular shape in the middle of the display. Reminds me the TRS-80 (these were the good old days...) - I get a couple of pcmcia error messages at the end of the kernel startup: i82365.o and ds.o complain about no such device and operation not permitted respectively. No big deal but I didn't get that previously. IMHO, if I do an install of a powerpc kernel, modules should be able to cope with any ppc platforms without throwing error messages. - The penguin logo is still sitting at the top left corner all the time, blocking about 4 lines of screen. I can't get rid of it. I tried everything in yaboot.conf (video=ofonly, video=atyfb, video=aty128fb in various combinations). Looks like an add banner in my console. I wonder what is causing it to happen. At one point I didn't have that, that was with 2.2.19 I think (there have been so many configs I tried... I kinda forgot.) - Finally X windows won't start up. Period. It has nothing to do with kernel 2.4.8. It has been like that even since I did the update to woody. If I enter the command startx, it tells me that it can't stat /etc/X11/X. All of that after a simple testing upgrade on top of stable (which I need because XF86 3.x won't work with aty128 on iBook.) What's weird is that I had to go and edit the inittab to bump the run level from 2->5. Installing X, I thought that it would do that for me. I thought wrong. Voila. I really hope that I can get some if not all of these problems resolved soon so I can one day enjoy running debian. Thanks for letting me know if you have any suggestions. I certainly greatly appreciate your help. Laurent
