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shickapooka800
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: strange boot problem, fb issue probably |
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hello,
i am trying to boot gentoo (and other distros -- all 2 of them) on a RDI britelite 'laptop' (its huge). it is based off of a Sun IPX system, except it has a video card to drive the attached screen. i believe this video card is the source of some of my troubles but i am still lost.
upon booting (both the vanilla kernels and the gentoo ones) the kernel is unpacked, and everything starts to fly by like normal, but around the time when it "switches to colour frame buffer device 80x30" it spits out the following:
| Code: | alloc_io_res(cgsix ram): cannot occupy
Program Terminated
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where by it leaves me staring back at the 'ok' prompt. is there a place that lists all the video= options for booting (typing 'video' at the SILO prompt does nothing)? is there a way to forego the 'colour frame buffer' and try something else?
also, how easy is it to wire up an adapter to go from the sun vga plug to the normal 14-pin vga plug (it has the onboard video -- it is just an IPX motherboard shoved into a 'laptop' case).
thanks for the help |
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shickapooka800
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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ok i have found this, it appears it isnt the framebuffer, but something possibly more serious(or even more obvious and i am a moron)
that error i got, here it is in the kernel code: | Code: |
if (allocate_resource(&sparc_iomap, res,
(offset + sz + PAGE_SIZE-1) & PAGE_MASK,
sparc_iomap.start, sparc_iomap.end, PAGE_SIZE, NULL, NULL) != 0) {
/* Usually we cannot see printks in this case. */
prom_printf("alloc_io_res(%s): cannot occupy\n",
(res->name != NULL)? res->name: "???");
prom_halt();
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this is from http://kernel25.sourcesdb.com/r.php?num=199
it is a memory issue? what the hell am i doing wrong?! :) |
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shickapooka800
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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answering my own questions here:
cgsix (from previous error ) i found is the LEGO 8bpp framebuffer device that on my machine is probably the onboard video i think.
still lost though..... and netbsd wouln't boot (never a good sign -- but i think this is my downfall --looking into it). |
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