On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:50:56PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:15, you wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:48:01PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > > Hi Amadeu, > > > > > > I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded your > > > mail to me. > > > > > > I'm also from Brazil (UNICAMP) and I'm running debian on that machine, > > > I'm using linux 2.6.6 with the attached patch. Just note that on 2.6 my > > > video > > > > The attached patch seems to be for 2.4.26 though. > > There were 2 files attached. One for 2.4.26 and other to 2.6.6
Ah ... > > > card is not supported (it's a s3 trio), with 2.4 it's supported but it's > > > monochrome (blue actually). Since I use the machine as server I don't > > > care. > > > > Can you please try : > > > > 1) both the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 debian-powerpc kernels ? > > > > 2) booting d-i on your box with : > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-p > >rep.initrd (2.6.8 kernel) > > > > and : > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/2.4/vmlin > >uz-prep.initrd (2.4.27 kernel). > > I'll try then I mail you. PLease CC [email protected] too. > > > And tell us about your experience. I don't think the s3 trio fb is builtin > > in those, but please give the serial console a try and tell us how this > > works. > > > > Also, consider filling a bug report against kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc and > > kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc for all the problems you see, and asking for > > the inclusion of s3fb or whatever its name is. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2814 > > It doesn't compile, it was not ported. Ok. but you have a prep, it should be possible to get console output in vgacon. > I don't think it worth porting, it's too old and people who have old ppc > machines use them as server. But if you can solve this problem it's a plus. The vgacon way should be a nicer solution. > > > I already submitted those patches to debian people and they said it were > > > to be included in sarge, but I don't know if it's... Leigh said he has a > > > better and > > > > Whose debian people, what is your bug report # ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/07/msg00490.html Ok. First it is always better to fill a bug report instead of just posting to a mailing list (kernel bug reports will go to debian-kernel anyway, so ...). Second, is the patch you attached here still the old one, or the new one from Leigh ? And have you checked that it is not part of the current 2.6.8 kernel ? If the none of this is the case, could you do a followup on those old messages asking what's up with the inclusion of the new Leigh patchset ? Friendly, Sven Luther
