Re: [9fans] Display problem

["Thomas Miller" <tom@insolvencyhelp.org>]

Wynand Winterbach <wynand@dip.sun.ac.za> wrote:

> When I boot up, everything goes well until it starts up Rio.
>
> It prints 3 lines (where pc differs for each):
> fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C
> fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C
> fifo stat 0 scrio dc000000 scr 80304C74 pc 80171E9C
>
> then it prints character by character (SLOWLY):
> dossrc: serving #s/dos
>
> After this it continues in its slow char by char mode, and prints the
> previous line (the one starting with fifo).
>
> I assume this line is a debug line, and that pc is the program
> counter?
>
> Anyhow, nothing happens after that :(
>
> I have a classic Athlon, a Via KX 133 (I think) motherboard, which
> uses the 82C686 IDE chipset, and an Nvidia TNT 2 - according to the
> Wiki, this setup should work flawlessly. I tried to replace the TNT 2
> with an old ATI board (I don't know which one it is. A Rage board I
> think) - this allowed me at least to see a highly corrupted version of
> the window manager, but it was pretty useless.
>
> I'm really disappointed, since this OS seems so cool.

Hi,

I had this same problem last month with apparently
the same or similar video card.

The problem goes away when I recompile *both* kernel
and userland with the latest sources.  Recompiling
the kernel alone, even from latest sources, is
insufficient to resolve the problem here.  I confirmed
this yesterday by making a fresh install from
a fresh distribution iso downloaded yesterday.  I
still had to recompile both kernel and userland.

Here is the google archive to the 9fans discussion
last month (sorry about the long line length :-):

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;th=68e8e91fed094a7c&amp;seekm=407F31CF.nail9O11TLQU%40insolvencyhelp.org&amp;rnum=2

I still do not understand the cause of the problem
and why it seems necessary to recompile both the
kernel and userland.  I'm glad, however, that the
recompilation fixes the problem.

I am running kfs with 9pcdisk.  According to 'X
--configure' running with XFree86 Version 4.4.0
under NetBSD-current i386, my video card is
"nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/
Model 64 Pro]."

HTH,

Tom