[parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[Herb Radford]

OK, I was sidetracked for a few days but I'm back with news on the C200.

I got the cross-compile stuff for my Thunderbird Linux machine, got the
latest snapshot of the source and made a change in
drivers/video/sti/sticore.c to reverse the #if 1 to #if 0 and compiled. The
FX4 works with the exception of a short period during the startup where the
"Tux" logo would be displayed (at least I think this is the place!) the
screen switches to text on a set of 4 stripes - blue, black, blue then
black (quite broad vertical stripes) but then reverts back to the plain
black mode without the logo. Otherwise it seems to work.

Does that mean that stifb is up on the FX4??
What about X then?

I haven't yet dug into the code yet but I'm not too sure I could divine the
cause. Any hints or tips???

By the way, I also tried a 64-bit kernel 2.4.14pa6 which did not do
anything I could see after setting the w-bit in the processor status
register (went to 64-bit mode).

Regards, Herb

Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[Grant Grundler]

Herb Radford wrote:
> Does that mean that stifb is up on the FX4??

No. That's just the STI console - different driver.

> What about X then?

Dunno - but don't think that's the same.

> By the way, I also tried a 64-bit kernel 2.4.14pa6 which did not do
> anything I could see after setting the w-bit in the processor status
> register (went to 64-bit mode).

Did you enable CONFIG_PDC_NARROW?
That's required for 64-bit on Cxxx (but not on Cxxxx) machines.

grant

Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation is fantastic now on to the K9000 Power House :)

[Chris Christie]

What a great day it is for these fantastic RISC boxes :)

Grant you caused us to perservere with these boxes until now thanks and
hopefully [Im very confident] the K9000's are back in style!

4 PA 180 risc + 8 GB Ram + 34 Terra Bytes of HD :)

SMOKIN'

Chris Christie

ps. Will forward K9000 results :)

The key to this is WYSE monitors as early as a WYSE 60 will do :)

HP wont like that they cost $$$$$$$

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@puffin.external.hp.com>
To: "Herb Radford" <herbr@magma.ca>
Cc: <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation


> Herb Radford wrote:
> > Does that mean that stifb is up on the FX4??
>
> No. That's just the STI console - different driver.
>
> > What about X then?
>
> Dunno - but don't think that's the same.
>
> > By the way, I also tried a 64-bit kernel 2.4.14pa6 which did not do
> > anything I could see after setting the w-bit in the processor status
> > register (went to 64-bit mode).
>
> Did you enable CONFIG_PDC_NARROW?
> That's required for 64-bit on Cxxx (but not on Cxxxx) machines.
>
> grant
>
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> parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
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>

Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation is fantastic now on to the K9000 Power House :)

[Grant Grundler]

"Chris Christie" wrote:
> Grant you caused us to perservere with these boxes until now thanks and
> hopefully [Im very confident] the K9000's are back in style!

Glad to hear I was so inspirational...but lots of other people did
 most of the work. For K/C-class, most of the recent work
was done by Ryan Bradetich.

> ps. Will forward K9000 results :)

You do mean HP-9000? K-class?

anyway...it's does good to hear that it's working for you.

grant

Grant Grundler
parisc-linux {PCI|IOMMU|SMP} hacker
+1.408.447.7253

Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[Markus Grabert]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Herb Radford wrote:
> > Does that mean that stifb is up on the FX4??
>
> No. That's just the STI console - different driver.
>
> > What about X then?
>
> Dunno - but don't think that's the same.

Mhhh, can anybody give an clear answer to this question ?
Or is here some more testing necessary ?

Does anybody know whether stifb and/or XFree is working on a RavenU+
(C200/C240) with a VISUALIZE FX graphics card ?

Did anybody have success in running XFree using a PC PCI graphics card ?
(probably this is just possible as a 2nd graphics card as Grant wrote in
 a former email)

> > By the way, I also tried a 64-bit kernel 2.4.14pa6 which did not do
> > anything I could see after setting the w-bit in the processor status
> > register (went to 64-bit mode).

Thanks, Max

Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +0000, Markus Grabert wrote:
> Does anybody know whether stifb and/or XFree is working on a RavenU+
> (C200/C240) with a VISUALIZE FX graphics card ?

it doesn't. Only sticon works, but that's not enough to get X working.
I'm waiting for documentation, which tells me at least how to enable
the framebuffer and how to setup colormaps.

Thomas.

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Re: [parisc-linux] My C200 situation

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:35:55PM -0500, Herb Radford wrote:
> I got the cross-compile stuff for my Thunderbird Linux machine, got the

btw, one of the PA processors (think it's the PA7100 / PCX-T) is also
called T-bird, so using this nomenclature for an athlon is rather confusing.

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