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Bug#405285: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8)

Your message dated Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:40:57 +0100
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and subject line Re: linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8
has caused the Debian Bug report #405285,
regarding linux-image-2.6.18-3-sparc64: framebuffer broken in 2.6 since 2.6.8
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
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

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:09:22PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> That machine has been decommisioned, so I am unable to test at this time.

Thanks, closing the bug then.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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