Re: Problems booting 2.6.18 on SunBlade 100/150

["Per Øyvind Karlsen" <pkarlsen@mandriva.com>]

Torsdag 19 oktober 2006 08:38, skrev Jim Watson:
> On 19/10/2006, at 5:30 AM, David Miller wrote:
> > Are you sure you're enabling ATYFB video support in your kernel?
> > That's a common error when folks build their own kernels.
>
> Success! I used the later patch [0] and the config file from debian
> 2.6.18-1-sparc64 as mentioned by Jurij[1]
> which includes - hopefully relevant ;)
>
> CONFIG_FB_ATY128=y
> CONFIG_FB_ATY=y
> CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y
> # CONFIG_FB_ATY_GENERIC_LCD is not set
> CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y
>
> Using LCD Benq FP767 here,
>
> I could only get it it to boot this way:
>
> boot:mylinux18 video=atyfb:off
>
> which is what I need as it also gets rid of those pesky red dots ;)
>
> I am happy to report anything else that might assist...
>
> thanks to David for the patches and thanks to Jurij for guidance,
>
> jim
>
> [0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m\x116120447318793&w=2
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m\x116120045100433&w=2
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I'm left puzzled here now, will your display work correctly when disabling 
framebuffer with 'video=atyfb:off'? And if you're disabling it, why do you 
need to compile support for it?

My experience is that I need atyfb properly working to intialize display, 
otherwise it'll boot with not display (openboot screen will stay and no linux 
output is displayed, while machine is actually booting and serial can be 
used).

Am I missing something here..? (I'm fairly new to sparc, so please have 
patience:o)
-- 
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Mandriva