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

[Gaz God]

I have a copy of P2.upg.tar.Z which has a the drivers in it for the N40
here, if that is any help it.

Gaz

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running 3.3. NCE is installed so I thought it would be
> tadpole-friendly. I have hft0, and wgs0 - "Standard colour graphics
> adapter"
>
> So I guess that means I have no drivers...
>
> :(
> ;_;
>
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Andy Wallis <rawallis at panix.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> >>>
> >>> #/*****************************\
> >>> #* Barry Callahan
> >>> #* Technologist
> >>> #* RJL Systems
> >>> #* phone: 1 586 790 - 0200 x112
> >>> #*        1 800 528 - 4513 x112
> >>> #* fax:   1 586 790 - 0205
> >>> #\*****************************/
> >>>
> >>>> 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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> >>   ian.finder at gmail.com
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