Intel iMac booting FC5
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Apr 13 23:41:58 UTC 2006
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:53:26PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:58 -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Anybody else playing with a new Intel Mac trying to get Fedora Core working on
> > it? I'm happy to report that I've got my wife's 20" iMac booting under its
> > own power as of a few minutes ago.
>
> I've got a Macbook Pro with Rawhide, but I'm using the kernel from
> mactel-linux.org together with a Fedora initrd.
>
> > Still looking into what it takes to get X working -- it works fine in the
> > installer if you've got the latest firmware, since syslinux uses the bios
> > emulation layer, which provides some basic vga support that allows you to use
> > the vesa driver for install, but I'm trying to stick to pure efi.
>
> Yea, X.org bails for me with
>
> (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid Argument
>
> I haven't tried that hard yet to coerce our resident X hackers to look
> at it...
Can you try adding DefaultFBbpp 32 to the screen section of your
xorg.conf under the default depth ?
Dave
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