Re: 8.0_BETA on Mac Mini G4 with bad CD drive...

[Flavio Donadio <flaviodonadio%icloud.com@localhost>]

I have one that served me well for over 10 years… And the power brick still works great.

Problems is I am in Brazil, so shipping won’t be cheap.


Cheers,
Flavio


> On 19 Jul 2017, at 12:29, Michael <macallan1888%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:33:54 +0300
> Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> Another problem was the radeon driver.  I couldn't get it to work with
>> the DVI output, so I had to disable it in the kernel config so that
>> genfb can take over.  IIRC, this is the problem only with DVI, the VGA
>> is ok.  But if you are not sure which display you are gonna use, it
>> might make sense to proactively
>> 
>>  no radeonfb*    at pci?
> 
> Something is weird with the way the DVI output is wired on at least
> some Minis. DVI works as intended on all the Radeons I've got here
> ( admittedly, that's not many... )
> I do remember a bunch of mac-specific hacks in the linux driver, but I
> can't test and port them without hardware.
> 
>> Or we should get macallan a mac mini, not pun intended :)
> 
> I promise to do what I can to fix this if one magically shows up on my
> doorstep ;)
> 
> have fun
> Michael