Re: installing lenny on m68k/amiga
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:35:55PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I know. I thought that somebody has been working on this already?
> > 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?
It did not work when I was booting in 640x256 either...
> 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.
No, the IDE flash disk is connected to the Catweasel IDE controller. Since
there is no driver for the B2060, it would not work there anyhow.
hda: DeLOCK 54144 1GB, ATA DISK drive
This is a flash disk with an IDE connector, the CF-IDE and SD-IDE converters
are not visible in AmigaOS, only in Linux.
Christian
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