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

[Ian Finder]

Thanks Gaz & Andy for all for the help!

The drivers appear to be installed-- diag for wgs0 passes, and the
fbconfigurations file is sane. Same symptom persists.

Tried bosboot -ad /dev/ipldevice and it still doesn't work. I tried #
X > /tmplog ; and cat tmplog from my remote console.

Doesn't seem to produce any errors or output.

Any other ideas on how to potentially tell what is failing? X does not
appear to be running after running I run xinit.

- Ian


On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Gaz God <gaz.god at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the files i'm emailing is a fbconfigurations.N40.
>
> But my ADSL is running at super slow!!
>
> Expect an email soonish Ian.
>
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Andy Wallis <rawallis at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> #/*****************************\
>> >>>>>> #* 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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>> >>>>>
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