Re: aty128fb

[Michael <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 02:14 -0700, Michael wrote:
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> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 01:24 -0700, Michael wrote:
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> > > > 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 :( )
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> > > 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.
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> > > What model of machine is this exactly ?
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> > > Ben.
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> > it's the Gigabit Ethernet model, I forgot that, and wasn't sure how 
> > specific you wanted,
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> What do you have in /proc/cpuinfo ? And what does lspci says ?
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> Ben.
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/proc/info reports
processor    : 0
cpu        : 7400, altivec supported
temperature     : 27-29 C (uncalibrated)
clock        : 450MHz
revision    : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209)
bogomips    : 894.97
machine        : PowerMac3,3
motherboard    : PowerMac3,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as    : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics)
pmac flags    : 00000004
L2 cache    : 1024K unified
memory        : 896MB
pmac-generation    : NewWorld

lspci returns:
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 
PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
0001:10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 
(rev 05)
0001:11:07.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
0001:11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 
Controller (Link)
0002:21:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
0002:21:0f.0 ffff: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev ff)

I will also follow suit with vinai, and recompile the kernel, but as he 
asked, where do I pull in those sources?  For now I will get back into 
debian and search kernel.org, but also maybe recompile on the debian 
2.6.11 tree, I think maybe something was helping there, because normally 
when x tries to start the screen just flashes blank 4 or 5 times, when I 
booted with a self compiled kernel I actually saw the underline of the 
cursor
--Mike