Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!
On Don, 2003-03-20 at 15:01, befu wrote:
> >>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card".
> >>> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected!
> >>
> >> This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the
> >> chip, but...
> >>
> >>> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x82000000 e: 0x82ffffff correcting
> >>
> >> ... I rather suspect this is the problem. Try a 2.4 kernel, or if you
> >> use BootX, try using the startup extension instead of the app, or try a
> >> different bootloader if appropriate.
> >
> > The Wallstreet can't use quik so you'll have to patch the PCI resource
> > allocation (broken by MockOS) on kernel startup. There's a patch against
> > vintage 2.2 and 2.4 kernels floating around (from early XFree 4 prerelease
> > days; the same happened initially on my Lombard) that adds code to atyfb
> > for this very purpose. BenH and Geert should have it in their archives,
> > and I can dig up a copy if needs be. (Hint: the IO and memory regions are
> > probably initialized to overlap by MacOS, and XFree deactivates the memory
> > aperture).
> >
> > Michael
>
>
> Thanks Michael and Michel for your advise.
>
> Because I am a newbee and understand that recompiling the 2.2.20 kernel
> would involve a lot of effort and time, I would like to know if the original
> kernel in use can work with my Wallstreet by just making some adjustments in
> the XF86Config-4 file or not.
I'm afraid not.
> If it is hopeless to follow this way, I will have to patch and compile and
> whatever a new Kernel (v.2.4.10 ?). At the moment I have still no idea how
> to do that. I think I will have to read a lot of HOWTO's and spend a lot of
> precious time with this matter.
[...]
> Why hasn't anybody made a precompiled binary? I will never understand this
> aspect of Debian.
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.*powerpc
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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