> (1) Any luck with building working kernels?
Unfortunately, no. You will not believe how many different configurations
I have tried :-(
Here's a list of what I have found so far:
If I create a very mimimal configuration that only just support the
hardware I have, then it does not Oops. I don't know exactely what option
I'm excluding that causes the Oops seen previously, but that should be
possile to work out once I get it to boot completely (see below).
With the minimal config the kernel works no matter if it's GENERIC or
Avanti, which I think is good news :-).
Although the kernel no longer Oopses, I can still not boot it as it now
seems to have some problems with my scsi controller. I have tried
everything from the most conservative settings to the most agressive, but
no matter what I choose it hangs at boot with this message:
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun
0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
I have also tried the exact same settings that the debian kernel use
(which boots fine on this box), but that does not work either - which
seems very strange to me.
I tried upgrading to the latest 2.2.18pre kernel, but that one has the
same scsi issue (although it uses a newer version of the driver).
Here is a dump of the relevant boot messages, first from the working
debian kernel and then from my latest try with 2.2.18pre:
2.2.17 (debian kernel) :
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
ncr53c810-0: rev=0x01, base=0x4200000, io_port=0x8000, irq=11
ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL ST4.3S Rev: 0F0C
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: DEC Model: RRD45 (C) DEC Rev: 0436
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
ncr53c810-0-<4,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 4.0 MB/s (250 ns, offset 8)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
ncr53c810-0-<0,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8471232 [4136 MB] [4.1
GB]
eth0: DE434/5 at 0x8800 (PCI bus 0, device 12), h/w address
00:00:f8:22:2c:32,
and requires IRQ14 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
2.2.18pre :
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
ncr53c810-0: rev=0x01, on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11
ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.1-20000726
scsi : 1 host.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun
0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
ncr53c8xx_abort: pid=0 serial_number=1 serial_number_at_timeout=1
it hangs here...
Here's the scsi related info from proc :
root@odin:/usr/src/linux# cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0
General information:
Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x1
IO port address 0x8000, IRQ number 11
Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 32
root@odin:/usr/src/linux# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL ST4.3S Rev: 0F0C
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: DEC Model: RRD45 (C) DEC Rev: 0436
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Any ideas on what could be wrong?
> (2) Does anyone have any experiences with X they would like to share?
Unfortunately the kernel I'm using to boot is not compiled with support
for the ATI Mach64, so I cannot use the Framebuffer X server. All the
other servers refuse to start, with the exception of the mono server and
the Mach64 server. The mono server starts but presents me with a
completely messed up screen, and starting the Mach64 server has the
effect of dumping me straight back in the SRM console.
The graphics card in this box is a ISA based Mach64 GX (chip is:
210888GX00, RamDac is: AT&T PrecisionDAC ATT20C408-13).
/Jesper Juhl
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