Bug#405285: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:50:28PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> 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?

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz