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

[Gaz God]

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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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Ian Finder
> >>>>> (206) 395-MIPS
> >>>>> ian.finder at gmail.com
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> >>>  (206) 395-MIPS
> >>>  ian.finder at gmail.com
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