Sergio Brandano wrote: > I am returning from an unsuccessful attempt to create a bootable > floppy. The reason is that at OF time, I can not specify "zip:yaboot". > The reason is that ... I do not have a ZIP drive, and the parameter > does not work for my SuperFloppy. (SF is a 120Mb internal > floppy drive on /dev/hdc ) > > I am stuck and in real troubles. I have work to do before the end > of the week, and I need to have this video back. Is there anything > that you have in mind and I can try? Looking for a Word document on this box to test kword with it, I found the attached text. Hope it helps. I forgot who posted it to the list, please speak up to claim your credits! :) Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
I've been fighting with XF4 on my Lombard for a while now and have made some headway. I'm posting this for those having the same troubles as I had. First, thanks a million to Michel Schmitz and Michel Dänzer, who answered a lot of (stupid) questions. These two are exemplary of why the Open Source community is ! Anyway, here;s how I got things to work: Use yaboot to avoid PCI register overlaps created by OF and BootX. Get a fresh copy of linux-pmac-stable off linuxppc.org. Substitute the ~/drivers/video/atyfb.c file with the one attached to this posting. Configure with ati and fbdev support, make and install (including modules) Make sure you use runlevel 3 to tool around in. Get Ani's XF86-4 source off linuxppc.org sync the Xserver section and update the Xfree86.cf file as posted on Ani's X-page on linuxppc.org. Make and install. Substitute the ~/modules/hw/drivers/video/ati_drv.o file with the one attached to this posting. Put the XF86Config file attached to this posting in the /etc/X11 directory Startx and enjoy great accellerated graphics (plus all the bugs I've not discovered yet).
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