Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 23:01 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote:
> Very good and thx! This works and I was able to start the Debian
> installer, to partition the disk, init with ext3 and begin the Net-
> Install. DHCP worked just fine.
> Let's wait for X support then, would be kind of nice to have.
>
> However, the graphical Linux Penguin Logo of the kernel showed up OK!
Yes, with "ofonly" it sticks to the 8 bits framebuffer initialized by
the firmware... enough to display the penguin but not much more
unfortunately...
I'm not sure yet what's up with the video. I might ask you to send me
register dumps and to try various things later, maybe next week, I'm a
bit "offline" at the moment (vacation).
Ben.
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