Re: IMS TT video issues
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 07:04, Angus Duggan wrote:
> I have just spent most of the last couple of days installing Debian Woody on
> a PowerMac 9600/300 and getting kernel 2.4.18 built and (mostly) working. I
> have a couple of remaining issues that are plaguing me.
>
> 1) If I use a pre-built 2.4.18 kernel, or a normal home-built one, the
> monitor goes blank on boot-up. I have tried just about all of the
> combinations of video=ofonly, video=fbdev and video=imsttfb without
> success. The 2.2 installation kernel that I was using to install does
> work, and looking at /var/log/dmesg, the difference is that 2.2 thinks the
> video board uses the TVP RAMDAC, whereas 2.4 thinks it uses the IBM
> RAMDAC.
That misdetection will be fixed in an upcoming release of my stable
tree, after beeing broken for more than a year, finally somebody fixed
it and sent me a patch ;) (Kudos to Olaf Hering from SuSE)
Ben.
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