RS/6000 43P-133 scsi timeout with boot floppies

2002-06-05 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Hi, finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk set (as of May 16). Though avaliable docs do not really explain/mention to use boot.bin before rescue.bin i got this starting;-). But during boot up from boot.bin floppy the system hangs in scsi timeouts, just short after "

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Antoine Delvaux
> > in the module source. That doesn't output much though... > > > > Jun 5 09:23:22 brocoli kernel: >IN from bad port 338 at d006092c > > Jun 5 09:23:22 brocoli kernel: IN from bad port 338 at d006092c > > Jun 5 09:23:22 brocoli last message repeated 452 times > > Jun 5 09:23:22 brocoli kern

Re: Trying to use sleepd for inactivity

2002-06-05 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. Machine's running fine, > > though. > > Any funny hardware? None. There's no AirPort cart, there's a big RAM chip in the expansion slot, and I've a network connection. > No, PowerPC doesn't have a 15-IRQ limi

Re: Trying to use sleepd for inactivity

2002-06-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 5 Jun, this message from Stephen van Egmond echoed through cyberspace: > Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> 166 BAD interrupts? that's a lot... > > Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. Machine's running fine, > though. Any funny hardware? >> > they don't >> > do anything quite

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 5 Jun, this message from Antoine Delvaux echoed through cyberspace: > Le mercredi 5 juin 2002 vers 8:19, Michel Lanners écrivait : >>> # insmod eata.o io_port=0x1400 >> ^^ >> Where are you getting this value from? > > I'm getting this addresse from lspci and from

Re: Trying to use sleepd for inactivity

2002-06-05 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 166 BAD interrupts? that's a lot... Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. Machine's running fine, though. > > they don't > > do anything quite so mundane as use, you know, interrupts for the > > keyboard. > > Oh, they do, just not in the way that a

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Antoine Delvaux wrote: > > > >> # insmod eata.o io_port=0x1400 > > > > ^^ > > > > Where are you getting this value from? I'm sure it is wrong... Have > > > > a look at the boot messages of your kernel, and also send along the > > > > output of 'lspc

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Antoine Delvaux
> >> # insmod eata.o io_port=0x1400 > > ^^ > > Where are you getting this value from? I'm sure it is wrong... Have > > a look at the boot messages of your kernel, and also send along the > > output of 'lspci -vv'. > > I'm getting this addresse from lspci and from prev

Re: Another Newbie question

2002-06-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Chris Wouldn't recommend MK Linux for anything although I did get it working after a fashion. It is buggy, slow, clunky and unsupported now. Regards Clive At 4:04 pm -0500 31/5/02, Chris wrote: Dear Debian Guru's, Thank you all so much for the answers to the list and to me personally

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Antoine Delvaux wrote: > Le mercredi 5 juin 2002 vers 8:19, Michel Lanners écrivait : > > On 4 Jun, this message from Antoine Delvaux echoed through > > cyberspace: > >> Since two days I've been in touch with the developper of the eata.c > >> driver (Ballabio Dario) and he gav

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Antoine Delvaux
Le mercredi 5 juin 2002 vers 8:19, Michel Lanners écrivait : > On 4 Jun, this message from Antoine Delvaux echoed through > cyberspace: >> Since two days I've been in touch with the developper of the eata.c >> driver (Ballabio Dario) and he gave me a few debug version of that >> driver to play w

Re: Trying to use sleepd for inactivity

2002-06-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 4 Jun, this message from Stephen van Egmond echoed through cyberspace: > sleepd works by watching the IRQ bus for interrupts. Specifically, > looking through the code it looks through /proc/interrupts for anything > that looks like an interrupt for a mouse or keyboard. > > Here's what my /pro

Re: eata.c module and PCI setup problem (RAID SCSI card)

2002-06-05 Thread Michel Lanners
On 4 Jun, this message from Antoine Delvaux echoed through cyberspace: > I'm currently trying to make a DPT PM2144UW PCI card with a > SmartCache IV and 64 MB working. It's a UW SCSI raid controller. The > card is working fine in an Intel based box with the eata driver. But in > my PowerMac 75