Bug#415543: Re: Bug#415543: xorg: same for power macintosh 6500

[rob <kasseler@gmail.com>]

Hi, first of all thanks for your reply. My /proc/interrupts looks as follows:

          CPU0
 18:        583   PMAC-PIC  Edge      MESH
 20:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      PMac
 21:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      PMac Output
 22:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      PMac Input
 23:        217   PMAC-PIC  Level     eth0
 25:          0   PMAC-PIC  Edge      SWIM3
 27:       1559   PMAC-PIC  Edge      ide0
 29:       5078   PMAC-PIC  Edge      ADB
BAD:          0
 
eth0 doesn't appear to share the interrupt with anything else. I really can't tell which one my graphic card is supposed to be. The 
network card's number is 23 which explains the "Disabling IRQ#23" message when I get thrown out of the network. On a hunch I moved the 
ethernet card to another pci slot but that had the same result.

The sordid debian installation story for my power mac is as follows. I had both xfree86 and network working together with sarge, the 2.6.8 
kernel and bootx (the bootloader). With bootx you boot into os9 and then from there boot into linux. I then completely erased os9 and 
sarge and installed sarge and then etch using quik. Quik (also a bootloader) allows you to boot directly into linux. Because I couldn't 
get xfree86 or xorg working at all with quik (similar problem with screen freezing), I installed etch with os9 and bootx.

Beats me if I broke something along the way...

Anyways, thanks for your help up till now. At least I know now what interrupts and IRQs are. As always, more help is appreciated.

yours, rob homsi