From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aistrend.allinterior.com (aistrend.allinterior.com [209.194.65.119]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44FA482B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:27:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from ealfert (ais1.allinterior.com [209.194.65.122] (may be forged)) by aistrend.allinterior.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fBDGOev04729 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:24:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001e01c183f3$de0537a0$830000c0@ealfert> From: "Edward Alfert" To: References: <001101c183db$4be88290$0201a8c0@w2kpro> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] What keywords should I use to find the answer? Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:33:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: i consider myself a newbie (but i'm willing to learn), so please cut me some slack, but building the kernel didn't work for me. this is what i did: su cd mkdir source ftp ftp.parisc-linux.org user: anonymous password: edward@alfert.com cd cvs get linux-latest.tar.gz (also tried linux-2.4.16-pa19.tar.gz) get palo-latest.tar.gz quit cd source zcat linux-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf - (nothing gets extracted) zcat linux-2.4.16-pa19.tar.gz | tar -xv - (nothing gets extracted) zcat palo-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf - (tons of files are extracted into palo folder) gunzip * tar -tvf linux-latest.tar (no files are listed) tar -tvf linux-2.4.16-pa19.tar.gz (no files are listed) tar -tvf palo-latest.tar.gz (tons of files are listed) Why is the linux* files empty? did i do something wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helge Deller" To: "Edward Alfert" ; Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] What keywords should I use to find the answer? > Hi Edward, > > Hmm, I think we forgot to backport the stifb-PCI hack :-( > > The reson behind this "I'm not trying to set up the PCI graphic > card now... It would freeze your machine" message is, that > during the initialisation of the A4977A Visualize EG PCI card > (which is often found in c3000 workstations) my machine > completely freezes. > > Since you have another PCI card you should try a recent kernel > from CVS which explicitly checks for this combination of c3000 and > Visualize EG combo and avoids to initialize it. For all other > combinations of workstations and graphic cards this check isn't > done and the graphic card will be initialized. > (PS: This should be added to the 0.9.3 FAQ!) > > Helge >