Having booted the 2.6.17 the problem of the qla2xxx is workarounded.
The problem now is the framebuffer mode of your ragexl video card. Another
workaround here is to remove the card and leave just the UPA one. The UPA
supports correctly the framebuffer.
pablo
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The 2.6.17 kernel hangs right after it attempts to switch video modes -
it just sits there with the following:
Console: switching to mono PROM 80x34
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
atyfb: 3D RAGE XL (Mach64 GR, PCI-33) [0x4752 rev 0x27]
atyfb: 8M SGRAM (1:1), 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PPL, 83 Mhz
To install the 2007.0 cd you have two kernels. You selected 2.6.20 when in fact
you should do [TAB] and select the 2.6.17
Pablo
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:21:05 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] QLA2xxx
> To: gentoo-sparc@lis
I started trying to work on the system; however, we ran into a few
problems with it. I haven't been able to get the 2007.0 CD working
because of the aforementioned issue - it also doesn't list an obppath,
loading, or data files for the QLA controller under /sys/devices - so
following the instructio
