Re: Are OldWorld Macs still supported?
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:28, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> The system produces some output on the display but does not
start any
> form of installation procedure - it just sits there.
Where does it get to? What messages occur?
If I set my display (AppleVision 1710) to 1024x768x15, the systems gets
stuck at after the following output [just noticed that if I wait long
enough, the system reboots]:
Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1.541
linked at : 0xc0000000
frame buffer at : 0x94c00210 (phys), 0xd0c00210 (log)
klimit : 0xc07cf000
MSR : 0x00000072
HID0 : 0x8000c084
pmac_init(): ext
id mach(): done
MMU:enter
MMU:hw init
hash:enter
hash:find piece
hash:patch
hash:done
MMU:mapin
MMU:setio
setup_arch:enter
setup_arch:bootmem
arch:ext
Further testing show that any display mode which is not 24-bits freezes
here (until the system reboots after a few minutes).
Any display mode which is 24-bits depth continues past this to a black
screen with Tux icon, then after about 5 seconds goes totally black (and
doesn't reboot).
It might be something as simple as a corrupt video driver for this
particular system.
Specifying kernel parameter 'text' doesn't help - as the text system
still needs the framebuffer.
> Is this kernel/ramdisk version (2.6.8-1.541) supposed to work
on
> OldWorld Macs? If yes, let me know, so that I can file a bug report.
It's not really something we've tried and tested. It may be worth looking at
if YDL uses seperate configs for old/new world if not then it may just be
something we're missing. IIRC the kernel for oldworld/newworld on ydl should
be the same.
Paul
YellowDog 3.0 with kernel 2.4.20 runs fine on this machine.
I'm willing to spend some time to help test this - if you have any
concrete items to check, please let me know.
Thanks,
Bob