Hi Ed! On 4/1/20 4:23 PM, Ed Robbins wrote: > Back in December I was able to get sid running on my eMac using a net > install image and a custom EDID binary. This is necessary due to the > strange timings of the eMac monitor. Furthermore it is necessary to put the > EDID binary into the initramfs by creating a hook, otherwise the eMac > monitor refuses to switch to the new mode when an incorrect mode was used > during the initial boot. I posted about this on the Linux on powerpc macs > facebook group and have been supporting it there [1].
While I have a Facebook account, I rarely use it. So whatever gets posted there is, oblivious to me. > I wondered if it is possible to directly support eMac machines by > supporting this in the installer and taking the necessary steps during > installation? Is this something that you would be happy to have upstream? Depending on what it's involved to achieve that, absolutely yes. > I do not know how to go about adding this but I am happy to do testing > (including committing to release testing) or try to add the support myself > if you could provide some pointers? Just let me know what needs to be patched where and how. Then I can figure out how we can upstream this. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
