Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21
Rick,
On 9/24/21 4:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:30:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> On 9/23/21 23:08, kristofferfin@tuta.io wrote:
>>>> I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with mechanical HDD and stuck here:
>>>> i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal
>>> What do you mean by "stuck here"? Does it boot up to his point and
>>> then nothing further happens?
>>>
>>> Please provide a little more information and context, i.e. what you
>>> did to get there and so on.
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>> I'm seeing something similar. using the attached screen of my iBook G4
>> the last lines I see are
>>
>> [ 30.582886] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Snowy_
>> [ 30.660875] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: direct-loading firmware b43/ucode5.fw
>>
>> and then the screen has been frozen for hours. I am able to ssh into the
>> machine anduse it from there but I have a minimum machine load of about 2.
>> I figured it was related to the firmware-amd-graphics package I installed.
> I'm seeing the same behavior on a Mac mini G4 (standard spinning rust hard drive, if it makes a difference). Screen freezes just at the time it switches from the open-firmware frame-buffer driver to something more native. I don't know what graphics chip it's using. I can ssh into the machine and run something to find out, if you can tell me what to run.
>
> Is there some way to tell it to not try to switch graphics drivers away from OF-FB?
>
> Thanks!
> Rick
>
If you add "video=ofonly" as a kernel command line option, does it work?
-Stan
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