[Xenomai-help] Xenomai -> PPC (III): Total Failure

[Xenomai-help] Xenomai -> PPC (III): Total Failure

[smannori]

Hi:

result: total failure. I think that could be the x.org X11 driver

    BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
    Driver "radeon"

that cause so many problems.

Someone could suggest any alternative explanations ?

My every attempt to install Fusion/RTAI or Xenomai on this machine was a
disaster. I think that Powerbook and iBook are different beast.

Beside that, standard Linux works great on this machine, expecially if you
use a recent kernel (2.6.11 or better).

       Simone

Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai -> PPC (III): Total Failure

[Gilles Chanteperdrix]

smannori@domain.hid wrote:
 > Hi:
 > 
 > result: total failure. I think that could be the x.org X11 driver
 > 
 >     BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
 >     Driver "radeon"
 > 
 > that cause so many problems.
 > 
 > Someone could suggest any alternative explanations ?
 > 
 > My every attempt to install Fusion/RTAI or Xenomai on this machine was a
 > disaster. I think that Powerbook and iBook are different beast.

If you do not give us any more precise description of the symptoms you
observe, I am afraid no one wil be able to help you.

As usual; do it step by step :
- try and get an adeos patched kernel running in text only mode on your
  box, with as few options as possible enabled ;
-  try and install Xenomai in text-only mode so that if there is a
   crash, you will at least be able to send us a kernel stack trace. 
- if this work, try running X-windows. Then, if it crashes, you will
  know that it is because of X. In such a case, to get a crash dump,
  enable console on serial port or netconsole. Of course, you will need
  a second box.

Also note that :
- you can not run graphic driver kernel module without recompiling them
  for the adeos patched kernel ;
- you probably do not need open GL support for running Xenomai.

-- 


					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.

Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai -> PPC (III): Total Failure

[Wolfgang Grandegger]

On 10/14/2005 09:33 PM smannori@domain.hid wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> result: total failure. I think that could be the x.org X11 driver
> 
>     BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
>     Driver "radeon"
> 
> that cause so many problems.

It's not clear to me what you are speaking about. What failed?

> Someone could suggest any alternative explanations ?
> 
> My every attempt to install Fusion/RTAI or Xenomai on this machine was a
> disaster. I think that Powerbook and iBook are different beast.
> 
> Beside that, standard Linux works great on this machine, expecially if you
> use a recent kernel (2.6.11 or better).

If you have a rather recent Linux 2.6 version running on your system,
just use it. The distro does not really matter. Then download a recent
kernel version from kernel.org and try to get it compiled and running on
your box. Use the .config file from the kernel comming with the
distribution. Don't forget to disable power management. Then wait until
an up-to-date iPIPE patch get's available.

Wolfgang.

Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai -> PPC (III): Total Failure

[Philippe Gerum]

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 10/14/2005 09:33 PM smannori@domain.hid wrote:
> 
>>Hi:
>>
>>result: total failure. I think that could be the x.org X11 driver
>>
>>    BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
>>    Driver "radeon"
>>
>>that cause so many problems.
> 
> 
> It's not clear to me what you are speaking about. What failed?
> 
> 
>>Someone could suggest any alternative explanations ?
>>
>>My every attempt to install Fusion/RTAI or Xenomai on this machine was a
>>disaster. I think that Powerbook and iBook are different beast.
>>
>>Beside that, standard Linux works great on this machine, expecially if you
>>use a recent kernel (2.6.11 or better).
> 
> 
> If you have a rather recent Linux 2.6 version running on your system,
> just use it. The distro does not really matter. Then download a recent
> kernel version from kernel.org and try to get it compiled and running on
> your box. Use the .config file from the kernel comming with the
> distribution. Don't forget to disable power management. Then wait until
> an up-to-date iPIPE patch get's available.
> 

Ok, the "thing" is here. Validated on my mpc52xx for now; will test it later on 
the Sandpoint board.

http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/adeos/ppc/adeos-ipipe-2.6.13-ppc-1.0-00.patch

-- 

Philippe.