Re: Trying the netinstall again on Atari Falcon
Am 10.02.2018 um 15:57 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
On 02/10/2018 01:51 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote:
since someone on #atari-home IRC asked me how Debian would work these days, i gave the new Netinstaller Adrian released another try.
Please invite anyone interested to Debian on m68k or other exotic architectures
to the #debian-68k and #debian-ports channels. I have the impression that there
are lots of people interested in Linux on such machines, but not many are aware
we're working on the support for these.
Yes, did that. Unfortunely english is "nothing for him".
While looking at the kernel output at boot i saw that my Network card
is indeed supported (i thought it wasn't until 2 days ago!). It only
needed the MAC address to be set manually, then the eth0 came up.
This is more a firmwar bug of the "EtherNAT" network card that has no
MAC adress default.
Yes, MAC addresses are normally set in the firmware. You might be able
to reprogram your network card's firmware chip to fix the issue.
I will look at this.
The intalled Debian has atm two problems
-keyboard (de layout) work ok for usual letters and numbers, also those
that need the shift modifier, but many important characters like ~ @ | and
[ ] cannot be typed on the Atari
I remember Keyboard worked fine. Will reconfigure to US for the time
beeing
-xserver crashes
I'd need help with that. I'll append the dmesg.txt and xorg.log files.
Let me know if you want more logfiles or remote access.
FWIW, during the last meetup in 2015 we had, you actually had X.Org running
on your Atari Falcon using the fbdev driver, although you might have used
a different graphics card back then. Either way, X worked.
Yes, we had it running. But we used fvwm. This time, when the installer
asked me, i choosed LXDE. Probably this does not support 8-bit colors?
But then, Falcon supports 16 Bit (65k colors) in 320x240 and 320x480.
I can boot clean, change to one of these modes, and then bootstrap
Debian with the "video=atafb:keep" option.
After booting and login, i can "startx" to a desktop.
I added "atarimouse" to /etc/modules, and have a small but working
LXDE Gui. \o/ party :)
My GFX card (i had the same in 2015) supports much better modes.
But i can't set those without starting a programm before bootstra.tos,
and then Debian won't boot.
Greets,
Stefan
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