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[Str8bs <str8bslinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

Does booting with: "Linux snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes" get any
further before errors?

I don't have a PPC with ATI/Radeon to test, but I have some "theories."

At anyone:
Please advise the best communication forum to work through this as I
don't want to unnecessarily spam this list.

For now, I would leave X out of it. IE: Just see if we can get by one
error "fixing recursive..." Whether or not it successfully boots to
the desktop may be a separate issue.

Can you get beyond error or further before the error with:
1. Linux single
2. Linux single snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes (Or
snd-powermac.blacklist=yes if you don't have a warped sense of humor.
:) )
3. Linux single nomodeset


If #1 fails, but both 2 and 3 get further, that would help confirm
snd-powermac is conflicting with drm video drivers.
Note that comment number 78 in the bug is actually a "good" sign of
getting further, but indicates a secondary video issue.

If anyone with this problem has an existing installed with live
video=radeonfb:yada yada, could you confirm if removing the appends
from yaboot recreates the error or not?

If anyone who has the exact error could note their video card in the
bug report, I think it would be helpful to identify the hardware
affected since it doesn't seem to be all. Attaching lspci -nnvv would
be even better. Note that some AMD64 users are reporting the same
problem.
snd-powermac is complicating the issue, but the root cause could be
framebuffer conflicts or i2c with specific cards. I think the latter
would need a bug for each hardware set upstream.

I'm no expert, but enjoy digging through logs and helping
identify/define hardware problems. If anyone wants to work on this,
I'd be happy to help.

Regards,
Str8

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've taken a quick look at the disc image for the Alternate PPC installer.
>
> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/270/builds/44083/testcases/1438/results/
>
> One of the first things to get past will be bug 1066435 powerpc: "Fixing
> recursive fault but reboot is needed!"  The installation seems to go
> smoothly, but the system fails during booting.
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
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