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mattst88
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: Setting up an HP Visualize C360 |
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Hi,
I finally set up Gentoo on my C360. Upon boot, it seems to hang on * Starting local ... [ ok ]". If anyone has any immediate ideas on how to fix this, I'd be much appreciated.
Also, I have installed a Matrox Millenium, after hearing that I would be able to run X off it. I've found no documentation on doing so. When I compile in the Matrox drivers into the kernel I get a kernel panic upon boot.
Obviously, all this has been done over the serial console :p
Any help will be appreciated. |
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tfp
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Any luck with this? I'm pretty much in the same boat you are I have C3000, I could try dropping a PCI 5200 in there but I haven't had the time to research or even install the card. |
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HPRichard
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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the "X on non-HP graphics cards issue" is somewhat documented here. If you get a kernel panic on bootup with the Framebuffer driver built statically in the kernel, try to build and load it as a module.
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is the last message during startup. If you do not recieve a login prompt, check whether your /etc/inittab has a getty entry for the serial port you are connected to, like these
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s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 vt100
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which I stole from my 735 |
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mattst88
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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I uncommented those two lines and it worked perfectly, thanks.
I'm going to see about getting this Matrox working also  . I'll keep you guys informed. |
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mattst88
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| I compiled the matroxfb module successfully, but when I modprobe it, the system locks up. How can I catch the dmesg output? Or, better yet, how can I fix the problem all together? |
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HPRichard
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are running a 64bit kernel on your machine, matroxfb is very unlikely to run correctly, as described here. I don't know if you can run a 32bit kernel on that machine, but it should work that way. |
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mattst88
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, not using a 64-bit kernel.
| Code: | Processor type (PA8000 and up) --->
[ ] 64-bit kernel
[ ] Symmetric multi-processing support |
What else could it be? |
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