[Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

[Amir Ansari]

But the problem is that 'modeset' works with other machines and takes  
advantage of a very useful kernel feature. Adding a blanket  
'nomodeset' removes this feature - it allows Mac booting, but to the  
detriment of all other hardware.

Ideally, there should be a way to detect whether it's needed and boot  
accordingly. Hence the initrd notion (which would be complex, and I  
don't know of it working on any other distro), or the simple addition  
of a boot menu option.

I don't think it's a Fedora bug, this is something for the kernel  
mailing list... ;-)


On 19 Jun 2009, at 01:32, Martin Dengler wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:23:38AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> Is there a way we can modify SoaS so that mac users don't have to
>> [add "nomodeset" to the kernel command line] but it still works for
>> everyone?
>
> Yes (SoaS could put nomodeset in its kernel command line).
>
> Also you/we/"someone" should file a Fedora bug if there isn't one  
> already.
>
> Martin
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