Re: [K-mib-ppc] Re : Re : Debian on a BiG5

[Yves Combe]

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Le Mardi 2 Décembre 2003 17:18, Roland Laurès a écrit :
> Le 2 déc. 03, à 11:21, Calum Selkirk a écrit :
> Huummm sorry but there is a week ago, i compile the 2.6.0 test9 benh
> kernel and enable the fans gestion :) and it works fine :) (i have a Bi
> G5 too)
> Perhaps you can enable it yves... in your kernel :).
i have enabled all for ppc970 (g5).
CONFIG_THERM_PM72=m
but i don't know the name of the module.

> You can try to get the debian xavier but you will stop at the XFree
> configuration because I see (with my information) that the radeon 9600
> pro support is not fine...
> You perhaps have a radeon 9800 pro but I don't think that it will be
> better... I try XFree with both radeon's drivers and fbdev (with frame
> buffer kernel extension active)

you need radeonfb. In fact with the pre7 type dmesg | grep radeon to see if 
that works. if yes fbdev should works.

> But the two don't seem to work...
hum. What's the matter with fbdev? If you have a console you have a 
framebuffer. Did you put only OpenFirmware fb in your config?

> I try with an entire compilation of
> XFree via a gentoo distribution, and i try with debian package...
> Perhaps I'm so bad. But if you success to make you're XFree work, tell
> me what to do :D
Did you compile a cvs version?

> I'm waiting for the XFree 4.4 release...
i will put a pre7 in my iso.

> I test Pre7 as soon I can for my part.
Please do. I need your confirmation squashfs works now fine.

Regards
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Yves Combe
Formateur TICE
IUFM de Montpellier - Site de Nîmes
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