[rescue] Picked up an IBM / Tadpole RS6000/N40, xinit hangs system.

[Andy Wallis]

Try the following
cfgmgr to initialize the installed device drivers.
lsdev -C and see if the graphics card and lft/hft are Available. If it is
defined, the driver isn't loaded and just has an ODM entry(there be dragons).
Are you running AIX 4.2.1 with the special Tadpole drivers or is it 4.3? 4.3
dropped support for the Tadpole and you cannot run X due to that.
-Andy Wallis


> On Sep 7, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok... I can only run xinit from the local console- and when I do so,
> it hangs but my remote console still responds. Being an AIX noob,
> where are the logs I should be looking at.
>
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Barry Callahan <barryc at rjlsystems.com>
wrote:
>> Start by hanging a serial console off the thing, so when the console locks
>> up you can still interact with the machine and investigate?
>>
>> Or put the thing on your network?
>>
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>>> On 9/7/2014 4:33 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently picked this up, but running X or startx or xinit causes the
>>> system console to hang / freeze completely.
>>>
>>> Any good ideas on how to diagnose/fix?
>>> I'm not an AIX guy :(
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> - Ian
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