Re: Installing issues with debian 10-m68k on a real Amiga 4000D
Hi Adrian,
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 09/07/2018 11:01 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The CV64 driver (and the CV64/3D and Retina/Z3 drivers) were removed
> > in commit e019630e78e3482c ("[PATCH] remove broken video drivers") in
> > v2.6.21.
>
> The plan is to eventually bring those drivers back. I have already
> test hardware at home. elgar has actually one of the Cybervisions
> installed.
Good to hear that!
Unfortunately you'll have to deal with the "no new fbdev drivers, use
DRM" rule...
> > On A4000, amifb defaults to a VGA mode, which is not compatible
> > with the 1084.
> >
> > Adrian: can you please remove:
> > StartInstall_CV3D
> > StartInstall_CV64
> > StartInstall_retz3
> > and s/clgen/cirrusfb/ in StartInstall_clgen?
>
> Can do. Probably a good idea not to tempt people into using these
> when the drivers are currently missing. I can rename the Cirrus
> stuff as well.
The rename is a functional change (kernel parameter has changed; or
perhaps it never worked, I couldn't find when it was _changed_).
> >> Copying the intrid.gz, kernal & startinstall to the hd. Then modifying
> >> the startinstall script to read:
> >>
> >> amiboot -d -l vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k -r initrd.gz root=/dev/ram
> >> ramdisk_size=1500 fb=false debian-installer/framebuffer=false
> >> video=amifb:pal nolangchooser
> >>
> >> Results in video going to the amiga's output on the C= 1084 and I can
> >> see what's going on.
> >
> > Correct.
>
> I can maybe create script files for "amifb:ntsc" and "amifb:pal"
> to avoid this problem. I wasn't aware that amifb defaults to
> VGA on the 4000.
#define DEFMODE_PAL 2 /* "pal" for PAL OCS/ECS */
#define DEFMODE_NTSC 0 /* "ntsc" for NTSC OCS/ECS */
#define DEFMODE_AMBER_PAL 3 /* "pal-lace" for flicker fixed PAL (A3000) */
#define DEFMODE_AMBER_NTSC 1 /* "ntsc-lace" for flicker fixed NTSC (A3000) */
#define DEFMODE_AGA 19 /* "vga70" for AGA */
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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