Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mario Gaucher" <> | Subject | framebuffer problem on a PowerMac 7300 | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:34:20 -0500 |
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I have a PowerMac 7300 kernel 2.6.8 works fine on this computer kernel 2.6.9 does not work
I have the same problem that John Mock has with his PowerMac 8500... framebuffer does not work with 2.6.9 (everything is black with a few thin diagonal lines of dots and dashes)... this is with the onboard video (controlfb driver). With a Matrox Millenium PCI card (matroxfb driver), I get something on the screen but except for the little Tux in the corner, all characters on the screen are corrupted...
it works fine with 2.6.8 kernel with both drivers
I tried with 2.6.10-rc2-bk8 (that I got on kernel.org) and I have the same problem...
Because frame buffer does not work, I can not boot this computer... it does not respond to ping when I have this problem...
I did not try any pre-2.6.9 kernel, so I do not know where it stops to work.
I am not a programmer, so I can not offer any code to fix this problem... but if can test some kernel patches to get this problem fixed, I will be happy to do it.
sorry, I did not reply to the original message sent by John Mock, because I was not subscribed to this mailing list when he sent his message...
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