Re: Success with Motorola Powerstack II
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:04:56PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
> Christian Walther wrote:
> >The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no
> >problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided
> >Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Installer
> >created and configured a PReP Boot Partition (8 Megs).
> >
> >Firewire is working, too. ;-)
> >
>
> I've been fighting with this machine up until a few weeks ago. After
> serious problems regarding the zImage build process in vanilla linux
> later than 2.6.8, I finally were successful booting 2.6.20 and 2.6.20.1
> which my machines run on now.
>
> One thing I found out is that the ALSA sound module does not work at
> all. Luckily OSS is still in the kernel and so I used its equivalent.
>
> This might help getting it to work on vanilla kernels:
> cat "options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Still, X doesn't come up as it can't find any gpu card I throw at it no
> matter into which slot. I doubt this is a hardware limitation. fbdev
> doesn't do anything either but the Cirrus gpu - removed BIOS chip from
> the card - that is in in right now works with cirrusfb at least on the
> terminal.
>
> If you plan to run X too and get it working, I would be overjoyed to
> hear how. :)
You could try the fbdev druver to X.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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