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Bug#542963: marked as done (r128: X fails with "Invalid IO Allocation")

Your message dated Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:57:07 +0100
with message-id <20091204075707.GA8533@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr>
and subject line Re: Bug#542963: Installation-reports
has caused the Debian Bug report #542963,
regarding r128: X fails with "Invalid IO Allocation"
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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542963: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542963
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-502a-powerpc-netinst
Date: Aug 21, 2009 about 10PM to Aug 22 early AM

Machine: Imac 6GB 512K-L2 Model M5521
Processor: G3 350MHz
Memory: 64MB
Partitions: Guided whole disk

Output of lspci -knn: (copied by hand from adjacent screen)
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge [0600] Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP [106b:0020] 
         Kernel driver in use: agpgart-uninorth
         Kernel modules: uninorth-agp
0000:00:10.0 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RL/VR AGP [1002:524c] 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI [106b:001f] 
         Kernel modules: uninorth-agp
001:10:17.0 Class [ff00]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O [106b:0022] (rev02) 
         Kernel driver in use: macio
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB [106b:0019] 
         Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB [106b:0019] 
         Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
0002:20:0b.0 Host Bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI [106b:001e] 
         Kernel modules: uninorth-agp
0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) [106b:0021] 
         Kernel driver in use gem
         Kernel modules: sungem

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O ]
Detect network card:    [O ]
Configure network:      [O ]
Detect CD:              [O ]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives:     [O ]
Partition hard drives:  [O ]
Install base system:    [O ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O ]
User/password setup:    [O ]
Install tasks:          [O ]
Install boot loader:    [O ]
Overall install:        [O ]

Comments/Problems:
Installation OK with ofvideo option. Reboot fails on X.org XServer 1.4.2 error 
 (WW)****Invalid IO Allocation**
     b: 0xf000400   e: 0xf00001ff
 correcting ^G
 (EE)end of block range 0xefffffff<begin 0xf0000000
 (EE)unable to find a valid famebuffer device
 (EE)R128(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings
     and/or error above for possible reasons.
 (EE)Screens(s) found but none have a useable configuration.
 Fatal Service Error

Command line operation useable but:

reportbug not usable because ISP uses GMAIL which requires SSL coding.
Machine does not show up in network windows of adjacent Debian computer using 
Gnome. Command scp cannot find adjacent computer.

USB flash stick is recognized but cannot be mounted.
All of above computer outputs copied by looking at adjacent screen and typing 
into this machine.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf has no content (zero lines long).

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On Thu, Dec  3, 2009 at 21:22:19 -0600, Robert A. Stryk wrote:

> Hello --  Thought the report was lost so I went searching on the
> internet and found that the iMac model number was an early model
> that was used on about 6 different motherboards.  The board which
> seemed to fit my computer originally came with the BIOS in the
> boot-up software.  There had been a chance in OS9 to put the BIOS
> into the ROM but I got the machine with an unsupported version of
> OS-X and a forgotten master password. I declared the machine to be
> hazardous waste, threw out all my documentation, and have it in the
> pile to go to the hazardous waste center on the next trip.  My
> sympathies to the group that is trying to Debian Linux onto iMacs.
> 
OK.  Thanks for following up, and sorry for now replying to this sooner.
I'm closing the report now.

Cheers,
Julien

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