Lingering Issues

[Mark Walker]

Completed my install and found the source of the kernel panics, bad DIMM
module.
I still have some lingering issues.  Recompiled my kernel, vmlinux-2.4.19-4a
to support among other thing my video card, a Voodoo 3 2000.  I using a copy
of this on my Mac partition (MacDrive: System: Linux Kernels) to use as the
kernel when booting into linux.
When I used BootX to boot into linux I pass the following arguments:
"adbmouse=1, 103, 111 video=tdfx: 1024x768-24@60, noaccel" (with out the
quotes).
Upon booting my video resets during the boot process and the text looks like
pictograms.  Upon closer inspection it appears that the text is split in
half and the bottom half is above the top (as if it was doing some sort of
mirroring per line) and the resolution is something like 600x400 or smaller,
I get that from the size of the mouse cursor in the console.  When in gui
mode everything works great with video acceleration.
This also occured when I used the stock vmlinux kernel, but when I booted
with vmlinux-2.2 the console would appear fine, but X was very slow.

Another issue is my dialup account.  When dialing (I've used Kppp and the
dialer in Gnome) it connects, completes the handshake, but when verifying, I
get an error stating that pppd timed out.

System profile: PowerMac 7500
Sonnet Cresendo G3/400 processor
320 MB RAM
2 SCSI drives: 9.1GB (Mac 1.5GB and Linux 6.8 GB) and a 4.5 GB
Belkin USB card
Voodoo 3 2000 video card
Everything else stock

Thanks for all the help so far.
Mark

PS something odd I noticed, in Linux my cpu is listed as a ppc G3, but with
a clock speed of 197.7.  I bought a Sonnet Tech Cresendo G3/400....is this
an overclocked processor?  The Metrome utility in MacOS list it as a G3/400,
as does the Apple System Profiler.