[Debian-ppc64-devel] Debian running on a pSeries 6E4 - almost

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:01:38PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Jun/02, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > > > Also, i would appreciate if you could test the kernel i posted
> > > > (http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64), and tell me how it went, i
> > > > guess it will fail, but it is nice to have as much reports as possible,
> > > > together with a working .config file to compare against.
> 
> 	You guessed wrong: it works :-) (in the 5 minutes of uptime I've had
> with it, at least)

Oh joy. What model is it exactly, and can you provide me your /proc/cpuinfo ?

> robe@talat:~$ uname -a
> Linux talat 2.6.11-pseries #1 SMP Sat May 28 12:08:11 UTC 2005 ppc64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 	I'm attaching the dmesg of the system just booted. If you need any
> other info or want me to do any other test, just ask :-)
> 
> -- 
> 	Roberto Suarez Soto				Allenta Consulting

> matroxfb: Matrox G450 detected
> matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26214)
> matroxfb: framebuffer at 0x3FDCC000000, mapped to 0xe000000080007000, size 16777216
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
> matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1
> Using unsupported 640x480 MTRX,G450 at ec000000, depth=8, pitch=640
> fb2: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@400000000111/pci@2,6/pci@1/display@0

Hehe, you are using matroxfb, so that my explain things. The other try
probably worked too, but had no working graphics.

Friendly,

Sven Luther