From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:16:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107213408.5906.23.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6uekg254vp.fsf@zork.zork.net>
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:23 +0000, Sean Neakums wrote:
> Not to worry. I only ended up with modular radeonfb when I was trying
> to narrow down the cause of the boot hang.
>
> [...]
> > radeonfb built-in operations seem to be ok on my PowerBook3,5 (ATI M9
> > based), I'll try on a PowerBook5,4 (same as yours) tomorrow hopefully.
> >
> > Does the machine hang with the screen completely cleared ? Do you see
> > the penguin logo ? Did you try just using pmac_defconfig ?
>
> I seem some openpic messages and then the screen is cleared
> completely. Alas, I have the logo disabled in my configuration. I'll
> give pmac_defconfig a go this evening.
>
> I forgot to mention, after radeonfb failed to load as above, I fired
> up X. The display was unreadably corrupted, although the hardware
> cursor was fine and I could launch programs. Killing the X server did
> not return me to the console. I neglected to check if the machine was
> still accessible via the network.
X tend to be upset on macs if radeonfb hasn't pre-initialized the chip.
I think I fixed all of these problems in Xorg CVS tho.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-31 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050129163117.1626d404.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-01-31 7:11 ` Fw: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-31 7:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-31 9:23 ` Sean Neakums
2005-01-31 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-01-31 11:21 ` Joseph Fannin
2005-01-31 23:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-02 3:42 ` Joseph Fannin
2005-02-02 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] <20050130130131.030c1ef1.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <200501301831.25095.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
2005-01-31 19:08 ` Paul Blazejowski
2005-01-31 19:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-04 14:57 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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