On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, matt hull <mattmatteh@...> wrote:

> >
>
>  if you have radeon why do you have nvidiafb comiled in ?

Going back to the original statement I made when I started this thread
- I had never built a PPC kernel before so instead of creating my own
configuration I simply started with the config file that was used by
the kernel on the install CD. I can always take things out later. All
I was trying to do today was to get the machine to boot and start an
emerge -DuN world, and I did that much anyway.

>
>  boot with these 3 combinations:  ofonly, radeonfb, {none} then for each,
> cat /proc/fb and cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/name.   if the screen is un
> readable, then ssh in and find out.

Will do. The machine is busy for the rest of the evening so that will
be tomorrow. Booting with {none} using the install kernel is the same
problem I'm having booting my kernel so your idea about saving this
data is good. thanks.

>
>  also, i assume you are using dvvi with that mac mini.  i think those have
> only dvi ?

No, I'm using VGA. My Mini came with a little unit that screws into
the DVI port and has a 15-pin VGA connector on the outward side to
drive a regular monitor. the monitor worked with OS X on this machine
before I blew OS X away today.

>
>  the large cd that is 700+ MB has all the packages on it i think.  i always
> use the smallest one and just download the packages.  ( i have a package
> cache on my file server so its fast)

Yeah, I think that's just an oversite on the developer's part. Better
that they make a DVD iso image if they need to make it that big or
else cut out a few packages. I tried to order anything larger than
700MB last night on line and couldn't even find them. No big deal for
now. I'm done and the machine is built. From here out the CD hardly
matters. (I hope!)
>
>  i dont use k3b, cdrecord.  if the cd were bad or wrong, you would not get
> this far :)

Yep.

Thanks,
Mark

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