Bug#270773: Difficult Install PowerPC

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:14:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:13:36PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:09, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What a major pain! This was sooo much easier to when it was woody. To start with, I'll have to submit some info on installing w/ BootX 
> > > > for the other hapless souls out there who try to install on a beige G3...
> > > 
> > > Well, there have been various success reports with installing bootX, but sure,
> > > the documentation is utherly broken still on powerpc, since i guess nobody
> > > found the time to work on it.
> > 
> > Well, I will hopefully in the next week or so. 
> 
> Cool.
> 
> > > > I had to play around with getting started, as the docs don't yet reflect the changes wrought. So...the 2.6.7 kernel doesn't work with my
> > > > G3/266, as I've got a voodoo3 card, and I get no video. I mentioned in another email that I'll set up a serial console to figure out 
> > > > what's up with that, but I won't be able to fix it. I've not had any success with 2.6.x kernels and voodoo3. I just get a blank screen. 
> > > > So, I used a 2.4.25 kernel with ext3 compiled in. 
> > > 
> > > Ok, be a bit more precise here. What voodoo do you have ? Does using offb work ?
> > > And are you doing this in the installed system or in d-i ? 
> > > 
> > I have a Voodoo3 card 0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx
> > Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01)
> 
> Well, it should be supported, both in 2.6.8 :
> 
> CONFIG_FB_3DFX=y
> # CONFIG_FB_3DFX_ACCEL is not set
> CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=y
> 
> And in 2.4.27 :
> 
> CONFIG_FB_3DFX=y
> CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=y
> 
> So, it should work. If not, fill a bug report against the respectives kernel packages.
> 
> Mmm, the 2.4.25-powerpc-small kernel used for your floppy-2.4 install does
> contain : 
> 
> CONFIG_FB_3DFX=m
> CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=m
> 
> So, if this worked, i suppose you should try booting with video=3dfx:off or
> something such.

I think that the kernel boot option : video=ofonly should work to kill both
the 3dfx and mach64 fbdev driver you are seing, and use offb only. Please try
it out and report back.

Friendly,

Sven Luther