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by **John Fishe** » Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:00:00

Hey folks,

Has anyone gotten kernel version 2.3.40, or any other recent 2.3, to
boot? I was able to build it; when I try to boot with it, though, I get
a kernel panic midway through. The message given is something about
altivec (though I don't have that enabled). I could produce the whole
message if anyone has an idea.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any ideas or pointers.

Thanks,
John

by **John Fishe** » Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:00:00

> As of this writing, my 2.3.40 kernel has been running more than 24
> hours after building. No major problem so far. I couldn't obtain more
> than 640x400 screen resolution on OF boot but booting via BootX solved
> this problem.

> Tsuneya Wtabe
> --

> Fingerprint: B6 C5 34 C8 53 1C A7 39 2A 09 EF 17 E4 0D B9 CA

Excellent. I must've configured it improperly; I tried everything
again, and it booted this time. However, I get the 'gdm was already
running (pid xxx) but seems to have been *ed mysteriously' error at
the very end.

Could you send me your .config file? Do I need to upgrade gdm or X?

Thanks,
John

by **Derek Schroc** » Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:00:00

>> -snip-
>> again, and it booted this time. However, I get the 'gdm was already
>> running (pid xxx) but seems to have been *ed mysteriously' error at
>> the very end.

> This has nothing to do with your kernel, I think, and you might want to
> have a look at the following article, which may give you a hint:

> http://www.veryComputer.com/

>> Could you send me your .config file? Do I need to upgrade gdm or X?

> I'll send it to you later. BTW, Xpmac.rage128.usb.rev6 (or rev8) might
> solve your problem.

> Tsuneya Watabe

rev9 Xpmac even

--
Derek Schrock

by **John Fishe** » Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:00:00

[snipped my own post]

> This has nothing to do with your kernel, I think, and you might want to
> have a look at the following article, which may give you a hint:

> http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200001/msg00420.html

> >Could you send me your .config file? Do I need to upgrade gdm or X?

> I'll send it to you later. BTW, Xpmac.rage128.usb.rev6 (or rev8) might
> solve your problem.

> Tsuneya Watabe
> --

> Fingerprint: B6 C5 34 C8 53 1C A7 39 2A 09 EF 17 E4 0D B9 CA

Thanks, Tsuneya.

I didn't think it was related to the kernel until I (a) grabbed
Xpmac.rage128.usb.rev9 and (b) rebuilt 2.3.40 without aty128 framebuffer
support. The new Xpmac didn't change anything. The aty128-less kernel
worked flawlessly, though.

It seems strange to me, at least. The kernel with aty128 framebuffer
support would have this error regardless of the video options I supplied
(or did not supply) in BootX. Specifically, 'No video driver' checked
and no kernel args did not work, and neither did 'No video driver'
unchecked and the kernel args 'video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:32'. Were
these args incorrect? From the article you pointed me to, it sounds
like they might be.

Thanks,
John