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linux-ports package

  1. Bug #345542
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 345542

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In , Michel Dänzer (michel-daenzer) wrote :

I haven't seen this on my PowerBook with upstream kernels up to 2.6.29.1, so 'on powerpc' may be too broad.

One thing I notice is that the dmesg seems to be from a 64 bit kernel. Are people also seeing this on machines running 32 bit kernels?

> DRM fails to initialize on PowerPC with Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-5-powerpc, based
> on 2.6.28.1 (the 2.6.28-4-powerpc, based on 2.6.28, worked fine).

So it should be possible to isolate the kernel change that causes or at least triggers it?

> Unlike the problem with 2.6.29 reported earlier
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12441), "nopat" does not help.

Yeah, PAT is an x86 feature...