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On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 23:03, Kain wrote: |
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> I have completed building & uploading new ppc-sources and a new build+iso for Gentoo-PPC. |
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This may not come as a surprise to anyone but the iso of April 22 |
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installed and ran fine on a Powermac 7600 with Powerforce G3 upgrade |
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card and PCI video card replacing the onboard graphics (ATI 3D Rage |
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Pro). Thank you Kain and others! |
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I copied the ramdisk image and the kernel to 'System Folder/Linux |
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Kernels' on the HFS partition, with MacOS 8.6, and used BootX to bring |
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up the Gentoo kernel and installer. |
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That G3 upgrade card is the 366 MHz with 1M cache. I used the Powerlogix |
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extension to enable the processor cache at 200 MHz (with cpu at 300 |
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MHz). |
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The remaining problem is that the X server does not bring up the video, |
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even though I've set the BusID option in the XF86Config file: |
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BusID "PCI:0:13:0" |
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reflecting the location of the graphic card as found in /proc. |
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Any ideas on getting the PCI graphics card to work? (It's necessary |
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because onboard video has bad vram). After "startx" the server doesn't |
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report any errors but there is no video output (the monitor goes into |
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idle from not being driven). I think its accessing the onboard graphics |
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controller instead of the PCI controller. What can I do? Must I switch |
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to the frame buffer driver? |
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