Re: aty128fb

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 02:14 -0700, Michael wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 01:24 -0700, Michael wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Not Sure which one that is Ben, I am new to some the jargon used on 
> >>these boards.  The night before last it actually clicked in my head 
> >>afaik mean As Far As I Know, (sometimes I'm a bit slow on the uptake)  I 
> >>actually compiled 2.6.11.6 two days ago and that didn't work for me, and 
> >>the last build I did I built aty128fb as a module, and was going to try 
> >>loading it after login, but I kept running out of space on all my 
> >>partitions, so I am in the course of rebuilding my system now, and I may 
> >>take that advice and build one of your own old 2.4 kernels that have 
> >>been so widely raved about on the 'net.  Is rsync the only way to get 
> >>them, or do you have a tarball file somewhere, on a dialup connection 
> >>that manually times out after 6 hours, rsyncing kernel source may be out 
> >>of the question. (It only gets 28.8 k speeds, damn the copper :( )
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Hrm.... 2.6.11.6 should work fine. Tried using the pmac_defconfig file
> >(arch/ppc/configs/pmac_defconfig) ? It contains all you need for most
> >mac models. aty128fb should definitely be built-in, not a module, and
> >you shouldn't have to add any special kernel argument, it should pick up
> >your card automatically.
> >
> >What model of machine is this exactly ?
> >
> >Ben.
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> it's the Gigabit Ethernet model, I forgot that, and wasn't sure how 
> specific you wanted,

What do you have in /proc/cpuinfo ? And what does lspci says ?

Ben.