Re: sarge->etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> > > Another test: compile a kernel with nothing but the bare minimum of
> > > drivers (no ethernet, no disk, just ramdisk and keyboard) to see if
> > > that
> > > also shows screen corruption.
> > >
> > > 	Michael
> >
> > I also see this when I boot with "video=atyfb" but it goes away if I
> > boot with "video=ofonly".  This is on a beige G3.
>
> Rick, what kind of ATI card does your G3 have? The 3400 should have  
> some
> sort of rage64 or even older type.


"lspci -nn" gives me:

ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)


> Can you tweak some driver parameters (mclk and pll come to mind) to  
> see if
> that improves things a bit?

How do I do that?  (I'm using BootX under MacOS-9 as the bootloader.)

> 	Michael

Rick