some progress: opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed

some progress: opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed

[Paul Barrette]

Ok, I compiled my old kernel src, 2.2.2 and loaded it in the approp. place.
I used my old OF settings that booted fine with kernel 2.2.2  on R4.   I
compiled with the same .config file (after a make mrproper).

NB it gave me the same problem! opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed
However, at least the kernel boots with a nasty screen, and boots fine
screen and all from bootx.  So this suggests that 2.2.6-15 has some boot
issues concerning the 7200.

here is the quik.conf:
root = /dev/sda5
timeout = 300

#kernel 2.2.2 (ipmasq,3com eth cards,autofs) with fixed vram, no bootx
settings!
image = /boot/vmlinux-1
        label = linux
        alias = 1
        append="/boot/vmlinux-1  root=/dev/sda5
video=platinumfb:vmode:12,cmode:8"
<<
I tried boot-file empty and with the append line above, same result.  I
think there is some kind of boot enabler or something in R5 that is
different from R4.

ARe there any new OF issues for R5?

--
Paul Barrette
Ph.D. candidate, dept. of Classics
System Administrator
McMaster University

umbra loco deerat; qua postquam parte resedit
Dis genitus vates et fila sonantia movit,
umbra loco venit.                  (Ov. Met. 10. 88 ff.)
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Re: some progress: opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed

[Paul Mackerras]

Paul Barrette <barretp@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> NB it gave me the same problem! opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed

That message is a bit of a red herring, all it is telling you is that
OF doesn't have a method for initializing the platinum, but you knew
that anyway.  It just means that you can't use the video=ofonly
option.

There are some problems with the platinumfb driver.  Mark Abene posted
a message recently with a better version of the platinumfb driver.

Paul.

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Re: some progress: opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed

[P. Barrette]

Thanks for the reply, I have never actually seen OF before, I've been
doing it blind for a year or so, but that makes sense.  Kind of ironic
that I have the problems now that I can see the errors;-)  I have that new
driver I'll try it out.

--------
Paul Barrette
Ph.D. Candidate Classics (Latin Literature)
System Administrator
McMaster University

"Oppositaque ad os manu nescio quid taetrum 
exsibilavit, quod postea Graecum esse affirmabat."
                                      --Petronius

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Paul Barrette <barretp@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> > NB it gave me the same problem! opening display /platinum@F8000000... failed
> 
> That message is a bit of a red herring, all it is telling you is that
> OF doesn't have a method for initializing the platinum, but you knew
> that anyway.  It just means that you can't use the video=ofonly
> option.
> 
> There are some problems with the platinumfb driver.  Mark Abene posted
> a message recently with a better version of the platinumfb driver.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 


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