Re: NetBSD 5.0.2 can't handle 7455 CPU @ 1 GHz?

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Flavio Donadio wrote:

> I see that these machines you're trying have different video cards  
> in different buses.
>
> The one that locks loads the driver for the Rage128 frame buffer  
> (r128fb). The other loads the driver for the generic frame buffer  
> (genfb).

Worth a try - r128fb is relatively new and I could obviously test it  
only on hardware I have, which is a G4 with an Apple-badged AGP card  
and a Powerbook. It only attaches to hardware either I or someone I  
talked to tested. There may well be issues I just never ran into. On  
the other hand, since it attached Donald apparently has the same model  
as I do and I didn't see any problems. I do have different CPUs though  
( 2x 500MHz 7400 ).

> I think I had problems with ATI graphics cards in the past and using  
> genfb solved them. In my case, the machine would run headless  
> anyways...

There are three completely different drivers for three completely  
different chip families from ATI in NetBSD, which share no non- 
trivial, hardware-dependent code. Besides, genfb is about the same age  
as r128fb, there most definitely was no genfb in 2.1.

have fun
Michael

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