On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:01:36AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > I finally had the time to give a good look at this pre-built > kernel-image (I know, took me long enough :-), and got it working, but > with a couple of problems along the way. > > Hardware: Motorola StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone, 160 MHz 603e), > built-in Mach64 VT 1MB, PCI MacPicasso 540 (Cirrus Logic GD5480 chipset, > 4 MB). > > * Using BootX, it always boots with the console on the Mach64, > unless I check the "No video driver" box. (Didn't have a VGA > monitor to see what was wrong until this morning, the MacPicasso > has that funny Apple monitor port.) This behavior is different > from 2.2.19, but I'm not sure whether it should be considered a > problem...
Probably not a real problem; you can force the load order on the command line, though I don't remember how. > * When I check "No video driver", most of it is fine, but there are > color blocks with little circles in them between "VFS: diskquotas > version..." and "Console: switching to colour frame buffer...", > which look like what I used to get with CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y, as > this kernel has. But this is merely a cosmetic problem AFAICT. This might be fixed now. Uploading tonight. > * The machine hangs when trying to set the clock. I notice there > are two rtc.o modules, in drivers/char and drivers/macintosh. > Could the kernel be trying to load the wrong one? Worked around > this by setting HWCLOCKACCESS=no in /etc/default/rcS, but then I > have to rdate... Fixed, by only including the right one. I'm reasonably sure that I'm ok with just the drivers/macintosh/rtc.o, unintuitively, on all PowerPCs. Someone smack me if I'm wrong. > * The machine hangs while "Starting printer spooler:". Could it be > trying to insmod parport.o? Worked around by purging lprng. I can load parport without a crash now. > So now I'm up and running with 2.4.8, but the 3nd and 4th problems above > should probably be worked on. > > Oh- and the openafs module builds and works! Would anyone like me to > upload it? Neeet. I'll probably rebuild it against 2.4.12 sometime soon, if I can. I'd like to have AFS going again. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
