2.4.6-preX, 2.4.6...

2.4.6-preX, 2.4.6...

[Joshua M. Schmidlkofer]

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I have a strange problem, and I browsed the archives, but I don't see it 
being reported.  [God, what's the point.?  It's probably far too 
ambiguous to be useful.]

My System
HP Vectra VL8, 128 Ram, pIII 500, Matrox G200 [embedded], 2 Twelve-gig 
IDE drives.
Redhat 7.1 [Although, I don't think it matters]

I am using 'kgcc' [a.k.a. egcs-2.91.66] for compiling the kernel.

I have not located exactly [in which patch] the problem began, but if 
try to boot w/2.4.6-preX - 2.4.6,  the video goes away. And then it 
seems to lock up the computer.   At first I had APGART + DRI + MatroxFB. 
  So I removed the FB drivers, and tried again.   Same problems.   So I 
modularized Agpart, and DRI, [I need them for my X config].  No Change. 
  Almost immediatly after 'Uncompressing Linux.....'   I see a rush of 
the text across the screen, and then the screen flashes, and blinks, and 
then nothing.   I do not even have a  chance to see anything at all.  

I can't tell what's locking up, I tried a SysRQ, but got nothing.   No 
screen. *sigh*   I am not equiped to do this over a serial or parallel 
port.   I was hoping that someone would have a clue.  

In the mean time, I am expirimenting with different things. [kernel 
config's]   I will try to narrow it to a pre-release from 6.


thanks,
   Joshua

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Re: 2.4.6-preX, 2.4.6...

[Andreas Dilger]

Joshua writes:
> I have not located exactly [in which patch] the problem began, but if 
> try to boot w/2.4.6-preX - 2.4.6,  the video goes away. And then it 
> seems to lock up the computer.   At first I had APGART + DRI + MatroxFB. 
>   So I removed the FB drivers, and tried again.   Same problems.   So I 
> modularized Agpart, and DRI, [I need them for my X config].  No Change. 
>   Almost immediatly after 'Uncompressing Linux.....'   I see a rush of 
> the text across the screen, and then the screen flashes, and blinks, and 
> then nothing.   I do not even have a  chance to see anything at all.  

It _sounds_ like an X server problem (screen flashing, going blank).  Do
you have another machine available to see if the computer is still alive
(via ping, telnet, ssh, etc), or a serial console?

You could try setting your runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab, or booting with
"single" on the kernel command line to avoid starting X right away at boot.
If the system boots to single user mode, then it is X that is the problem
(or at least a bad interaction between X and your kernel).

> I can't tell what's locking up, I tried a SysRQ, but got nothing.   No 
> screen. *sigh*   I am not equiped to do this over a serial or parallel 
> port.   I was hoping that someone would have a clue.  

When you say SysRQ, does this include SysRQ-B for rebooting?  If so, that
may indicate a total lockup.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert

Re: 2.4.6-preX, 2.4.6...

[Joshua M. Schmidlkofer]

Just to clear up confusion.

  No my system does _not_ complete booting, and no this is NOT an X 
problem!   I just have a dead screen about .5 seconds into the boot 
process.....


thanks,


Joshua M. Schmidlkofer wrote:

> I have a strange problem, and I browsed the archives, but I don't see 
> it being reported.  [God, what's the point.?  It's probably far too 
> ambiguous to be useful.]
>
> My System
> HP Vectra VL8, 128 Ram, pIII 500, Matrox G200 [embedded], 2 Twelve-gig 
> IDE drives.
> Redhat 7.1 [Although, I don't think it matters]
>
> I am using 'kgcc' [a.k.a. egcs-2.91.66] for compiling the kernel.
>
> I have not located exactly [in which patch] the problem began, but if 
> try to boot w/2.4.6-preX - 2.4.6,  the video goes away. And then it 
> seems to lock up the computer.   At first I had APGART + DRI + 
> MatroxFB.  So I removed the FB drivers, and tried again.   Same 
> problems.   So I modularized Agpart, and DRI, [I need them for my X 
> config].  No Change.  Almost immediatly after 'Uncompressing 
> Linux.....'   I see a rush of the text across the screen, and then the 
> screen flashes, and blinks, and then nothing.   I do not even have a  
> chance to see anything at all. 
> I can't tell what's locking up, I tried a SysRQ, but got nothing.   No 
> screen. *sigh*   I am not equiped to do this over a serial or parallel 
> port.   I was hoping that someone would have a clue. 
> In the mean time, I am expirimenting with different things. [kernel 
> config's]   I will try to narrow it to a pre-release from 6.
>
>
> thanks,
>   Joshua
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