Bug#405285: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64
Version: 2.6.18-8
Severity: important
Upon installing either of the sarge 2.6.8 or sid 2.6.18 kernels on my
Sun Ultra10 with a Creator 3D card (as well as onboard ati rage 128,
from my understanding), I get get a kernel that boots up without a
console. It seems to be a well known problem with a solution of
appending "video=atyfb:off" to silo; perhaps this should be done by
default?
Furthermore (probably related?), apparently the ffb driver is
completely dead anyway from 2.6.8, and as such has been removed from
the kernel: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/5/33
If they are the same problems, is there any chance of getting this
looked into? Presumably not being able to modprobe ffb (because it
doesn't exist) is the reason why we also don't have working DRM under
Xorg?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85e tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64 recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-3-sparc64: false
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-3-sparc64:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-3-sparc64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-3-sparc64: false
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