Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes

[Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxwell@mac.com>]

On Sun, 2025-09-07 at 13:16 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> On 9/5/25 6:27 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > Would you send your xorg.conf, etc., please?  I can only seem to
> > get
> > Xorg to launch by passing in video=ofonly.  I can't get it to work
> > with
> > fbdev either.
> > ...
> 
> 
> I've been testing kernels on my Wallstreet using a current Gentoo 
> distribution.
> 
> I noticed this morning that mainline kernel v6.1, compiled using the 
> attached .config file, works in Gentoo, but not in Debian SID.
> 
> In Debian, I can see the X11 login screen, but the keyboard and mouse
> don't respond. In Gentoo, everything works as expected.
> 
> In Debian SID, I'm using Xfce, sysvinit-core instead of systemd, and
> wdm 
> instead of lightdm.
> 
> In Gentoo, I noticed elogind was installed; elogind was not installed
> in 
> Debian. Using "apt-get install elogind" to install elogind, systemd
> was 
> removed, as well as xserver-org and some X11-related files, so of
> course 
> X11 doesn't work at all now, and I'll need to restore from a backup. 
> Interestingly, I'm not having similar issues with PB Lombard or
> Pismo.
> 
> My BootX configuration is as follows (working X11 in 6.1.0 in
> Gentoo):
>      Kernel: vmlinux-6.1.0-pmac (custom kernel, no modules)
>      Boot Device: /dev/sda13 (Gentoo partition)
>      More kernel arguments: video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:71
>      No video driver: checked
>      Options:
>        Force SCSI ON: checked
>        Force video settings: checked
>        Use specified RAM disk: not checked

Checking "No video driver" appears to pass in video=ofonly.  How is
your performance with this configuration?  Mine is borderline unusable.
mclk:71 makes everything green.

> 
> I'll probably end up using whatever .config file the developer who 
> investigates the possible kernel regressions recommends.
> 
> I'm not using an xorg.conf file in either Debian SID or Gentoo (I 
> haven't needed to use an xorg.conf file since Debian 7.8 in Sparc64).
> 
> For now I'll be sticking with Gentoo for these particular kernel 
> regression tests.