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Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75



On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:33:23PM +0200, Malte Cornils wrote:
> Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 16:16 schrieb Sven Luther:
> > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:30:05PM +0200, Malte Cornils wrote:
> > > Floppy ejection at this point is normal and could also
> > > mean that the kernel boots fine, only that the local console is
> > > broken.
> >
> > Can you tell me what kind of graphic those boxes do have, and i will
> > check the fbdev driver for those.
> 
> Sure:
> 
> The PowerMacintosh 4400 on-board video has output-device /bandit/ATY,264VT

probably the atyfb or whatever, will check.

> The 7200/75's booted Linux kernel (with a woody-installed Debian) shows a 
> "platinum" device. Where can I find more info on that?

Platinumfb probably.

> There is also an 8200/120 which should also have the platinum control chip.

controlfb.

> We have an G3 here (ATY,mach64 GT-C) which might eventually work, too.

atyfb.

All of themshould be supported : 

CONFIG_FB_OF=y
CONFIG_FB_CONTROL=y
CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y
CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y

Don't know what is wrong.

> All of them were tested with d-i from 06/Apr, but none worked. (the new disk 
> images from today still do not have the correct floppy images AFAIK)

09 should have them.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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