From: "Charles A. Jolley" <charles.jolley@zeratec.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: LinuxPPC R5 on PowerBook Series 1999
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:32:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906301644.LAA32319@www2.tuckeris.com> (raw)
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>From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
>Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999, 11:11 AM
>
>
> Did you try with the "no video driver" option ?
>
In fact, I tried it with both "no video driver" option checked and
unchecked.
> This may also be a backlight problem, Apple love changing the way the
> backlight is controlled from one model to the other. You can try
> commenting out the backlight control functions in drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c.
Ah-ha...this would make sense...it is consistent with the behavior I'm
seeing. I need to get R5 setup on my other machine here before I can
recompile the kernel without the backlight functions and try it again so it
may be a week or so before I can do this...maybe I can try it this
weekend...
-Charles
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-30 16:32 Charles A. Jolley [this message]
1999-06-30 17:12 ` LinuxPPC R5 on PowerBook Series 1999 Stephen Edie
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1999-06-30 19:37 Charles A. Jolley
1999-06-30 16:11 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-06-30 16:46 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-06-30 17:15 ` John Boswell
1999-06-30 14:01 Charles A. Jolley
1999-06-30 18:45 ` Kevyn Shortell
1999-06-30 19:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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