Re: Help re Frame Buffer/Console Problems

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:22:11PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:

I have been trying to get a CG3 sparc clone up and running with linux.
Under 2.2.26, the console is fine. During the development of the
2.5.x/2.6.x frame buffer system the CG3 support got broken. I have managed
to track done one of the problems (the blanking code had some typing
errors in it) and this gave me a logo + black screen and cursor using a
linux-2.2.8.1 kernel. Still no console text.
Given that 2.2.10-rc1-bk6 is available, I have downloaded and applied the
appropriate patches and made some additional mods to keep the
compiler/linker happy. Now I have a black console, no text, logo or cursor
and if I redirect the console output to a serial port I get the following:

Okay, sounds like a relatively major disaster. =(


-- wli