On Wednesday 2 March 2005 01:13, Andrew wrote: > I've installed the available yum updates and I am very pleased so > far as the system fell 'faster' and more responsive compared to 2.6.8 > and 2.6.9. (Responsiveness is ranked very high on my OS-o-meter > appreciation list) Good job ;) > > I have spotted a couple [minor] issues so far. Perfection is just a > dream after all. One is about atyfb and the other about the bmac > ethernet adapter. > > 1- Thus X11 is working super fine, there is a bad bug in the consoles. > The screen show a pair of distorted column. The letters are 'buzzing' > The first (left most) column is located on 'n)' of > 'Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 (orion)' and the second is located 10 letters > to the right. tty1 does print debug stuffs: > > debug atyfb: Mach64 non-shadow register values: > debug atyfb: 0x2000: 007F00A3 002C0083 02FF031F 00230300 > debug atyfb: 0x2010: 023C0000 20000000 00000002 0B000200 > debug atyfb: 0x2020: 00280919 02C00679 00000000 92100000 > debug atyfb: 0x2030: 00000000 00000031 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x2040: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x2050: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x2060: 00000000 AAAAAA0F 000BFE00 02F00000 > debug atyfb: 0x2070: 00300000 00000000 00003720 00000040 > debug atyfb: 0x2080: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x2090: 00A63003 00000000 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x20A0: 7B23A050 00000000 00000000 25010001 > debug atyfb: 0x20B0: 004215B9 00010000 00010000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x20C0: 00FF0010 86010182 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x20D0: 00000100 00000000 00000000 00002082 > debug atyfb: 0x20E0: 9A004754 0000001D 00000000 00000000 > debug atyfb: 0x20F0: 00000000 00000018 800004F8 00000000 > > debug atyfb: Mach64 PLL register values: > debug atyfb: 0x00: ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000 > debug atyfb: 0x10: ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000 > debug atyfb: 0x20: ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000 > debug atyfb: 0x30: ADD52414 A80341B5 8E82C501 A61B0000 > > My first guess is that i should set another driver than 'atyfb' > in bootx. Im not sure the one I should use. Suggestions? > > NOTE: I've set XF86Config to use 'mach64_accel' and its fine. > Can't comment on this one...
> 2- bmac ethernet card. I just had to do /sbin/modprobe bmac' then > activate the eth0 interface the usual way. I wrote a shell script that > does just that for me with a single command input. > A few days ago, Owen mentioned the following regarding bmac being a module now: Add the line alias eth0 bmac in /etc/modprobe.conf I think you won't need your shell script after that anymore. Just make sure your network interface is set to be configured at boot time. Good luck, Geert Jan > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
