Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hello Adrian, > >> While looking at the kernel output at boot i saw that my Network card >> is indeed supported (i thought it wasn't until 2 days ago!). It only >> needed the MAC address to be set manually, then the eth0 came up. >> This is more a firmwar bug of the "EtherNAT" network card that

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hello Stefan, Am 11.02.2018 um 01:07 schrieb Stefan Niestegge: > Hello Michael, > > > Am 10.02.2018 um 03:01 schrieb Michael Schmitz: >> Hello Stefan, >> >> what's wrong with the old falcon IDE driver? pata_falcon should not be >> necessary, and may even be detrimental to performance (it

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

On 02/11/2018 12:15 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > Yes, we had it running. But we used fvwm. This time, when the installer > asked me, i choosed LXDE. Probably this does not support 8-bit colors? I don't think the choice of window manager should make any difference here. We actually saw a crash as

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hi Geert! On 02/10/2018 07:41 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 8 bpp short work on Atari. There was apparently a crash which can be seen from the backtrace in the Xorg.log file. Possibly a regression? > How old is Debian's Xorg? The machine has been installed with Debian unstable, so the Xorg

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hi, On 02/10/2018 02:07 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: Am 10.02.2018 um 03:01 schrieb Michael Schmitz: [...] xserver needs support for the Atari pixel format (interleaved planes). Shouldn't be too hard to do, but Xorg code probably isn't for the faint of heart (I've certainly had enough to last

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:41 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:51 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >> -xserver crashes >> >> I'd need help with that. I'll append the dmesg.txt and xorg.log files. >> Let me know if you want more logfiles

Re: m68k meetup 2018 - second attempt

Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Hi! > > Since the last thread seems to have died down, let's try a second round. > Who would be interested in a Debian m68k meeting in 2018? > > The alternatives would be Kiel at the local university or the Linuxhotel > in

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hi Stefan, On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:51 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > -xserver crashes > > I'd need help with that. I'll append the dmesg.txt and xorg.log files. > Let me know if you want more logfiles or remote access. > (II) FBDEV(0): Creating default Display subsection in

Re: m68k meetup 2018 - second attempt

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 03:35:52PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/10/2018 02:53 PM, ALeX Kazik wrote: > >> Since the last thread seems to have died down, let's try a second round. > >> Who would be interested in a Debian m68k meeting in 2018? > > > > I'm interested. It's just a

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

On 02/10/2018 01:07 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > Probably nothing wrong with it, but with the kernel from the netinstall > iso no IDE was detected at all. A module was needed to be loaded and > pata_falcon was tried at first, and was successful. After the installer > installed to /dev/sda3 it

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

On 02/10/2018 01:51 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > since someone on #atari-home IRC asked me how Debian would work these days, i > gave the new Netinstaller Adrian released another try. Please invite anyone interested to Debian on m68k or other exotic architectures to the #debian-68k and

Re: m68k meetup 2018 - second attempt

On 02/10/2018 02:53 PM, ALeX Kazik wrote: >> Since the last thread seems to have died down, let's try a second round. >> Who would be interested in a Debian m68k meeting in 2018? > > I'm interested. It's just a matter of the date though. To quote Christian's mail from last November: > Lectures

Re: m68k meetup 2018 - second attempt

Hi, > Since the last thread seems to have died down, let's try a second round. > Who would be interested in a Debian m68k meeting in 2018? I'm interested. It's just a matter of the date though. ALeX.

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Am 10.02.2018 um 03:01 schrieb Michael Schmitz: xserver needs support for the Atari pixel format (interleaved planes). Shouldn't be too hard to do, but Xorg code probably isn't for the faint of heart (I've certainly had enough to last me a lifetime). video=atafb:keep (and choose 320x200 16

Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon

Hello Michael, Am 10.02.2018 um 03:01 schrieb Michael Schmitz: Hello Stefan, what's wrong with the old falcon IDE driver? pata_falcon should not be necessary, and may even be detrimental to performance (it doesn't use interrupts, rather it polls for completion of ATA commands). Probably