Re: Amiga4000 refuses to Debian! :-(

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Andreas W=FCst wrote:
> Am Freitag, 04.07.03 um 20:17 Uhr schrieb Bj=F6rn Johansson:
> > I'm having trouble booting up Debian here. I'm quite sure that
> > there is something with my hardware which the APUS kernels
> > don't like. After inserting the HighwayUSB I could still boot
> > up Linux, but then it didn't work anymore. So what I did was
> > that I turned off the computer, cleaned the fan on the ppc,
> > but Debian still won't boot up.

Did it work before you got the HighwayUSB? If yes, the lock up could be c=
aused
by interrupts from the HighwayUSB card (if it was initialized under Amiga=
OS
before).

> > Kernel command line: root=3D/dev/hda10 video=3Dpm2fb:mode:1024x768-70=
=20
> > video=3Damifb:off 60nsram -d
> > debug=3Dmem
>=20
> Hmm, does your memory really do 60ns? And btw. just out of interest,=20
> what is the video=3Damifb:off for?

To disable amifb and allow Paula to play sound at higher play rates.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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