Re: [K-mib-ppc] Welcome to the list

[Yves Combe]

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Le Mercredi 20 Août 2003 02:05, Calum Selkirk a écrit :
> hello Yves ..
Hello Calum,

> The hwdata-${version}/Cards does not seem to be setup to pass "UseFBDev"
> when setting up the XF86Config-4. Thus the only option for booting is
> with the framebuffer as graphics driver (xserver=fbdev) .. at least on
> the r128, and radeon based machines I tested on.
>
> Not being a debian user I'm not sure if the ppc debs have specific
> patches for ppc (for both hwdata and kudzu). I have patches against
> kudzu-0.99.99 and hwdata-0.8 (though they *should* apply to older
> versions).

Great. Kudzu debs does not have edid detection for ppc. For this reason i was 
not sure this package was very important.

>
> Also, dri kernel modules (Michel Daenzers trunk) for radeon, r128 and
> ati are missing which afaik are available as debs. These only make sense
> if the specific xfree drivers (radeon, r128 and ati) are used and would
> require their use (as opposed to the fbdev driver).
>
> http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/
Yes. The MiB-ppc-alpha was proof-of-concept iso, and the 3d acceleration was 
not a priority. I will try to put dri trunk in the next one.

>
> As a side note, I really think Knoppix would benifit from somekind of
> abstracted build process, one that would make the development of
> differing targets (ports, and to a greater degree, customizations)
> easier (at least from a developers perspective). Though it's fairly
> simple to reverse engineer the boot process and hardware setup, and
> of course users and developers can re-master, it's alot more inflexable
> when your target is non standard (such as a powerpc port). Again, I'm
> not a Debian user and so I say that  more is from the persepective
> of the development of livecd technology as a whole.

Fram Fabian Franz, the dev of the LinuxTag ppc:
"It is the intention to have an debian or debotstrap some system, then to
knoppify it and burn it on CD.

I'm working on that and will soon upload my first efforts. (At the moment I
have commercial stuff to do....)"

That's exactly what i want to do.

regards,

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Yves Combe
Formateur TICE
IUFM de Montpellier - Site de Nîmes
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