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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:27:28 -0700
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To: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:22:11PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> I have been trying to get a CG3 sparc clone up and running with linux.
> Under 2.2.26, the console is fine. During the development of the
> 2.5.x/2.6.x frame buffer system the CG3 support got broken. I have managed
> to track done one of the problems (the blanking code had some typing
> errors in it) and this gave me a logo + black screen and cursor using a
> linux-2.2.8.1 kernel. Still no console text.
> Given that 2.2.10-rc1-bk6 is available, I have downloaded and applied the
> appropriate patches and made some additional mods to keep the
> compiler/linker happy. Now I have a black console, no text, logo or cursor
> and if I redirect the console output to a serial port I get the following:

Okay, sounds like a relatively major disaster. =(


-- wli