Re: installing lenny on m68k/amiga
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 21:19, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> The lenny kernel (2.6.24) does not seem to have a driver for my Blizzard2060
> SCSI card, 2.6.26 also does not recognize my SCSI card.
> isofs is not built in, so that the installer can not access the installation
> CD. I think that was the point where I also gave up last time.
commit 642978beb48331db1bafde0262eee33f658cfc39
Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Date: Thu Jan 3 12:27:16 2008 -0600
[SCSI] remove m68k NCR53C9x based drivers
These drivers depend on the deprecated NCR53C9X core and need to be converte
to the esp_scsi core.
> I did not manage to get xorg going, does anybody have a config which works
> with amigafb?
>
> (II) FBDEV(0): using default device
> (II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode
> (**) FBDEV(0): Depth 4, (--) framebuffer bpp 4
> (==) FBDEV(0): Default visual is StaticColor
> (==) FBDEV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: Amiga OCS (video memory: 256kB)
> (II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against framebuffer device...
> (II) FBDEV(0): mode "640x512" test failed
> (II) FBDEV(0): mode "640x256" not found
> (II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against monitor...
> (--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 640x512 (pitch 640)
> (**) FBDEV(0): Built-in mode "current": 14.2 MHz, 15.6 kHz, 50.0 Hz (I)
> (II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "current" 14.19 640 726 802 908 512 541 545 625 interlace bcast -hsync -vsync -csync
> [...]
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
> (EE) FBDEV(0): mode initialization failed
>
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
Interesting, on my A4000 the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO succeeds. Perhaps
because I use a non-interlaced mode?
However, it crashes a bit later with SEGV. Still to be debugged...
> Now I would not mind testing the new clgen driver for my PicassoIV... where
> is the patch? I wouldn't mind a blz2060 driver either...
linux-fbdev-devel archives? Or just ask Krzysztof.
> BTW both the IDE flash disk and the SCSI disk are very slow, I get read
> speeds of only 1MB/sec. I don't remember what I had earlier, but it must
> have been faster?
The IDE flash is connected with a SCSI/IDE adapter?
Note that IDE isn't really faster on the Gayle IDE interface in my A4000.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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