From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA11867 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:57:25 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Helge Deller To: Karsten Merker , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] configuration problems with cvs from 20001216 15:40 CET Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:00:16 +0100 References: <20001217115105.A17378@excalibur.cologne.de> <00121721201800.25726@P100> <20001218230325.A934@excalibur.cologne.de> In-Reply-To: <20001218230325.A934@excalibur.cologne.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00122000445401.00303@P100> List-ID: On Monday 18 December 2000 23:03, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > > > $CONFIG_FB_STI is set to "y" as can be seen in .config, nonetheless > > > CONFIG_FBCON_STI is not declared. [snip] > I had activated "Console drivers -> Frame buffer support -> Advanced low > level driver options", and whenever this is selected, CONFIG_FBCON_STI is > not defined. If I unselect it, everything is ok. [snip] Ok, thanks a lot for your investigation. I hadn't realized that and since most of the developers use the default config, this problem has not shown up yet. > Has anybody tried to run Linux with serial console on a 715/100? When I > boot a kernel without support for STICON but with serial console enabled > (and console=ttyS0 as commandline parameter) the system crashes just after > displaying the "kernel command line" (system console is still in > "graphics" mode - does this make a difference?). This doesn't happen on my 715/64, which is afaik nearly the same machine as yours. And, you don't need "console=ttyS0", but I don't think, that this is related to your problem. > When using STICON instead, the console output works in principle, but > there is pixel garbage throughout the screen (it looks like it is between > the character cells) after the second "mode switch" (when the first line > on the screen is "Console: switching to colour STI console 160x64"). I > have seen a similar effect on a 712/80 when using STICON. Yes, this is a known problem - it happens here too -, but since some of the developers currently work on better STI-support this will get fixed in the future - and I think this problem was not there, before we merged with linus. > The keyboard > works on the 712/80 but is dead on the 715/100 (in both cases the keyboard > is a ps/2 model, connected directly on the 712/80 and via the small > external adaptor box on the 715/100). Hmm, does the other end of this external adaptor on the /100 looks like a RJ45-connector? If yes, I assume, that you have a PS/2 keyboard on a HIL-adaptor and need the HIL keyboard driver, which should already be enabled in defconfig. And the HIL keyboard works for me... If you could send me your bootlog I could take a closer look at it. Greetings, Helge