From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:12:09 -0500 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] kernels In-Reply-To: <20060310174512.C24B1B495E@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1262bd9e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ah. There's a pile of those in my office (recycled VA Linux servers), let's hook one up... The problem is you cannot run VESA with SMP, one of the processors ends up looping somewhere it shouldn't (it has probably crashed) and the CL-GD5480 chip is not recognised by aux/vga. So... new /lib/vgadb, /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/clgd542x.c and /sys/src/9/pc/vgaclgd542x.c on sources. --jim On Fri Mar 10 12:46:11 EST 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote: > it's an intel l440gx+ motherboard with 2 pIII xeons and, a 440GX > chipset. it's also got > 1. 15G ide drive /dev/sdC0 > 2. cdrom /dev/sdD0 > 3. motherboard-based aic-7896 (nothing attached and not recognized) > irq 11, io port 0x2800 > 4. pci-based dac960 (not recognized) > irq 11, io port f4206000 > 5. 1gb registered ecc ram 2x256. > 6. motherboard-based cirrus logic vga chipset with 2MB vram. > > it hangs. no reboot at all. > > "Ronald G. Minnich" writes > > | > | > | > if anybody can give me some pointers on where to start looking, > | > i'd like to see why my machine is failing on mp startup. > | > > | > | sorry, had not been paying attention, what happens? Any errors at all? or > | just spontaneous reboot? > | > | 2 cpu? What kind? > | > | ron