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

[Ian Finder]

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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