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

[Andy Wallis]

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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