Hi,
Just wanted to share that enabling CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA in the kernel
config solved the issue.
Thanks,
Giuseppe
On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Giuseppe Valente wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting this issue on a Powermac G5 (dual 2.0Ghz processor) with
> any kernel newer than 2.6.18 (I tried 2.6.26 and 2.6.30). The kernel
> boots fine but then the screen freezes, whereas the boot seems to
> continue fine in fact it responds to ctrl-alt-canc and I'm even able
> to ssh to it. The last messages I see on the screen are something
> that probably correspond to the mpic messages below:
>
> (from /var/log/syslog)
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC 1
> " version 1.2 at f8040000, max 4 CPUs
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: ISU size: 124, shift: 7,
> mask: 7f
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Initializing for 124 sources
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Setting up HT PICs
> workarounds for U3/U4
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: - HT:07.0 [0x90] vendor
> 106b device 0053 has 86 irqs
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096
> (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: time_init: decrementer frequency
> = 33.333333 MHz
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: time_init: processor frequency
> = 2000.000000 MHz
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Sep 3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: serial8250_console_init: nothing
> to do on PowerMac
>
>
> Full log is attached but I can't find anything revealing on it. I
> even tried with a newer kernel compiled with the same .config as the
> one that works but no success.
>
> Any help on this appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
> <syslog>
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