Re: Bug#119081: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:36:26AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > That gives me an idea. I tried to put Linux on a 9500 I have, but the
> > > root floppy disk kept giving errors. I have another Power Computing
> > > machine on the 'scrap heap' as you say, I think I'll try it on there.
> >
> > Hey, it works fine on the other machine. I even tried booting the
> > exact same system (I have it on an external SCSI drive) on the other
> > machine, and no problem. So there must be some rare low-level
> > incompatibility between my video card (a Mach 64) and ncurses or maybe
> > even the kernel.
>
> What mach64 version?? Are you using atyfb? The Lombard also has a mach64
> series chip ...
>
> > Is there a list I could take this too now, or someone who would be
> > interested?
>
> linuxppc-dev, but BenH is listening on debian-powerpc as well.
>
Well video=atyfb was no joy on this problem. It still crashed in the
same place. It gets a few more letters put on the screen before it
goes though.
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