whacked out 2.2.18pre17?

[Tony Mantler]

At 6:35 AM -0600 11/4/2000, Simon Piette wrote:
[...]
>Could you elaborate on that? I have an IMSTT 128 (2Mb VRAM) and I'm
>unable to accelerated video on a plain pmac kernel. I am currently stuck
>at kernel 2.2.12 because this is the only kernel that will accept a
>patch from Ryen Nielsen (http://krazynet.com/~ran/linux/imsttfb.c).
>The last pmac I tried is 2.2.16

I'm not sure how much I can elaborate on it, since I've never actually
managed to get it to not work.


[...]
>$ cat /proc/cmdline
>root=/dev/sdb6 video=imsttfb:vmode:17,cmode:16 idebus=66 hda=noautotune

merida:~# cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/hde1 adb_buttons=113,107


>$ lspci -vv
>[snip]
>00:0e.0 Display controller: Integrated Micro Solutions Inc. IMS9129 (rev 01)
>        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
><TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>        Latency: 8 min, 8 max, 32 set
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 24
>        Region 0: Memory at 82000000
>        (32-bit, prefetchable)

merida:~# lspci -vv
[...]
01:0f.0 Display controller: Integrated Micro Solutions Inc. IMS9129 [Twin
turbo 128] (rev 01)
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cat- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 2000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 29
	Region 0: Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
	Expansion ROM at 90000000 [disabled]
[...]

looking through /var/log/kern.log, we have...
[...]
MacOS display is /bandit/IMS,tt128mbA
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: IMS TT (IBM) frame buffer; 4MB vram; chip version 2
[...]

And that's about it. I'm booting with BootX, by the way.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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