On 4/26/13 3:32 AM, Str8bs wrote: > Good to know. Probably the same for your alternate installs. I guess that > confirms it should be a kernel bug? Looking through 1066435 and 1071880 > there are a few issues possibly mixed together. It might be a good idea to > file a new bug against server to clarify that? Looks like it also happened > with netboot install. > > As best I can make out: > 1. The only confirmed reports are those who also have Radeon video card. > blacklisting snd-powermac works around the issue. > That implies snd-powermac and Radeon/radeondrmfb are conflicting? I suppose > getting rid of snd-powermac would be a quick dirty fix. I doubt it is > getting anyone sound anyway and I would rather see people boot successfully > with no sound. With nouveau, I don't get this failure, but it does complain > about snd-powermac being deprecated. I also have to blacklist snd-powermac > on a machine with Mach64 Rage for yet a different problem. > 2. It does NOT happen with the live CD? Or is bug just avoided because the > live CD is being booted with video=radeonfb:yada yada essentially disabling > Radeon? Either that or the Desktop vs. other installers differ on handling > of snd-powermac.
It (recurseive fault) does not happen with the Live CD. Though the video= trick is needed to boot. I have a Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] from Hynix Semiconductor/Hyundai Electronics. Before all this, I had not realize how heterogenous the mac hardware really was. Regards, /Lars > One thing that is easy to forget (I always do) is that any kernel > parameters used to boot a live/desktop CD and install will automatically > get appended to yaboot(or grub for X86/64 users) as you just did manually. > Easy way to check what currently is getting passed is: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i kernel > > or it is also seen as ProcKernelCMDLine in apport output. > > Regards, > Str8 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
