Re: Amiga4000 refuses to Debian! :-(

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Hi Geert

Am Samstag, 05.07.03 um 11:46 Uhr schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:

> 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=20=

> be caused
> by interrupts from the HighwayUSB card (if it was initialized under=20
> AmigaOS
> before).

Oh, I've overlooked this part of the mail entirely.. My bad..

>>> Kernel command line: root=3D/dev/hda10 video=3Dpm2fb:mode:1024x768-70
>>> video=3Damifb:off 60nsram -d
>>> debug=3Dmem
>>
>> Hmm, does your memory really do 60ns? And btw. just out of interest,
>> what is the video=3Damifb:off for?
>
> To disable amifb and allow Paula to play sound at higher play rates.

Ahh, I understand!! But, to be honest, I've never really cared about=20
sound..

Thanks for the insight!!

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Best wishes,
Andi=