No video or console with 2.4.10 on Tanzania

No video or console with 2.4.10 on Tanzania

[harry eaton]

> I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.4.x based kernel, but it's not working.
> Everything appears to stop after "arch: exit" is displayed, but
> in fact the whole booting process continues fine, except nothing
> is ever sent again to the screen. The log file reveals:
> ...
> Fixups for bus 01
> Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
> ...
> PCI:00:11.0:Resource 0: 81000000-81ffffff (f=3D200)
> PCI:Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:11.0
> ...
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0 (8000-7ffffff) for 00:11.0
>
> plus other similar message about devices 00:10.0 and 00:0e.0
>
> I've tried Benh's latest from ppckernel.org, also the bitkeeper 2.4 =
> stable,
> plus a few others, even rolling my own minimal kernel from the 2.4.10
> source tree in the latest YDL distribution. They all do the same thing.
>
> This is on my Starmax 4160 (Tanzania) system. I use the built-in video
> (ATI 264 vt) and it all works great with 2.2 kernels.
>
> Ideas?
>
> TIA, harry


** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

Re: No video or console with 2.4.10 on Tanzania

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>> I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.4.x based kernel, but it's not working.
>> Everything appears to stop after "arch: exit" is displayed, but
>> in fact the whole booting process continues fine, except nothing
>> is ever sent again to the screen. The log file reveals:
>> ...
>> Fixups for bus 01
>> Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
>> ...
>> PCI:00:11.0:Resource 0: 81000000-81ffffff (f=3D200)
>> PCI:Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:11.0
>> ...
>> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0 (8000-7ffffff) for 00:11.0
>>
>> plus other similar message about devices 00:10.0 and 00:0e.0
>>
>> I've tried Benh's latest from ppckernel.org, also the bitkeeper 2.4 =
>> stable,
>> plus a few others, even rolling my own minimal kernel from the 2.4.10
>> source tree in the latest YDL distribution. They all do the same thing.
>>
>> This is on my Starmax 4160 (Tanzania) system. I use the built-in video
>> (ATI 264 vt) and it all works great with 2.2 kernels.

Please, send me the complete boot log under both 2.2 and 2.4, and the
result of lspci -vv (run as root) on both kernels.

Ben.


** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/