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

[Andy Wallis]

It looks like the N40 originally ran a special version of AIX 3.2.5. I was
thinking about the other RS/6000 laptop which had the AIX 4.2.1 special
version. I do apologize for the confusion.

I did find this tidbit that could be useful.
http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/7007/7007-n40.html
"When you bring up NCE Display panel, no display types listed.
Cause:  The /etc/fbconfigurations file can get zero'd out when written back to
disk from memory. Get fbconfigurations.N40 then make a copy just in case."

Good luck.
-Andy Wallis


> On Sep 7, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Andy Wallis <rawallis at panix.com> wrote:
>
> If wgs0 comes back as available, then you might need to run the diag
command
> to run the tests for it.
> Barring that, try running bosboot -ad as a sanity check.
> -Andy Wallis
>
>> On Sep 7, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Gaz God <gaz.god at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>>>>>
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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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