PMAG-BA is going on my DS5000/200, I had removed a line in setup.c that
the patch inserted, that is now back and it just booted with a Tux in the
corner,
I've changed the base address in the necessary spots also ...
now to get a keyboard to go with it :-)
Dave.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Michael Engel wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> > Well I've got hopefully the PMAG-BA support compiled in properly to a
> > 2.2.10 on my DS5000/200,
> > I see
> >
> > TURBOchannel rev. 1 at 25.0 MHz (no parity)
> > slot 0: DEC PMAG-BA V5.3a
> >
> > so it sees the card I get
> >
> > pmagbafb.c: found in slot 0 at address be000000.
> > pmagbafb.c: Trying to initialise PMAG-BA fb ...
> > Console: switching to frame buffer device
> >
> > so it finds it, and says stuff but I don't see anything happening on the
> > monitor Linux boots up the rest of the way ... what am I missing?
>
> There a bug still in the fb device code - the frame buffer base address
> is hardcoded as the initialisation comes before the TC init and I didn't
> implement probing in the fb device driver. Just replace the address with
> be000000 for now. Sorry about that ...
>
> regards,
> Michael
>
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