From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Wed Dec 12 09:25:38 2007 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:25:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] Changing initrd installer to use uClibc Message-ID: Hi Because the initrd uncompressed is about 18MB now - I am thinking about rebuilding it using uClibc. It's easier said than done -- there looks to be a lot of initial development work required, and I'm not yet sure of the payoff. The idea would be to reduce the amount of RAM required to run the installer. My current thoughts are that you need more RAM to run the installer than you do to run a basic installation of ARMedslack. Reducing the amount of RAM required would help making the installer usable on portable non-desktop ARM devices too, I suspect. I might download one of the pre-built build roots and build some stuff, and if it works out, build my own build-root. Any thoughts? From mozes at slackware.com Mon Dec 17 16:59:07 2007 From: mozes at slackware.com (Stuart Winter) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:59:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: [armedslack] Updates Message-ID: Hi It's been a while since the last updates, so I've pushed out the latest stuff which is (at the time of writing) in sync with slackware-current, minus a few Xorg updates. I haven't yet tested the installation on a RiscPC but I'll get around to it (although I'd rather spend time looking at using uclibc!). Enjoy! :) From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Tue Dec 18 20:01:13 2007 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:01:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA Message-ID: Hi I have done a new test installation of the latest ARMedslack stuff on the RiscPC. The installation was fine -- I had video. Booting with the same kernel into the new installation has resulted in no video -- as soon as GRUB boots the Kernel, the screen clears black and there is nothing on the screen. This happens sometimes but not every time - usually a poweroff for a few seconds fixes it. But the machine has booted successfully into the new installation. Is there anything that can be debugged whilst it's booted? -- Stuart Winter www.armedslack.org From thingi1 at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 20:15:07 2007 From: thingi1 at gmail.com (Steve Thingi) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:15:07 +0000 Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> Hi You could try exporting the display to another machine or at login via ssh (just make sure ssdh is enabled and is set to run on boot on the RiscPC host when you have got working vid). Then at least you'd know if X is giving you hassle or the driver X is using on the RiscPC. I'd personally try this over an ssh connection 'xset dpmsforce on' and see what happens..... thingi On Dec 18, 2007 8:01 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > Hi > > I have done a new test installation of the latest ARMedslack stuff on > the RiscPC. The installation was fine -- I had video. > > Booting with the same kernel into the new installation has resulted > in no video -- as soon as GRUB boots the Kernel, the screen clears > black and there is nothing on the screen. This happens sometimes but > not every time - usually a poweroff for a few seconds fixes it. > > But the machine has booted successfully into the new installation. > Is there anything that can be debugged whilst it's booted? > > -- > Stuart Winter > www.armedslack.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Tue Dec 18 20:39:54 2007 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:39:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA In-Reply-To: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> References: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Steve I have sshd running, luckily :) Starting X results with: (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device (EE) No devices detected. where as normally it'd start X running on the RiscPC's display. This problem is a that there's no VGA at all. I am wondering whether it's got anything to do with the patch: ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-current/source/k/sources/linux-2.6/patches/taglist-uncompress.diff On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Steve Thingi wrote: > Hi > > You could try exporting the display to another machine or at login via ssh > (just make sure ssdh is enabled and is set to run on boot on the RiscPC host > when you have got working vid). > Then at least you'd know if X is giving you hassle or the driver X is using > on the RiscPC. > > I'd personally try this over an ssh connection 'xset dpmsforce on' and see > what happens..... > > thingi > > > > > > On Dec 18, 2007 8:01 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > I have done a new test installation of the latest ARMedslack stuff on > > the RiscPC. The installation was fine -- I had video. > > > > Booting with the same kernel into the new installation has resulted > > in no video -- as soon as GRUB boots the Kernel, the screen clears > > black and there is nothing on the screen. This happens sometimes but > > not every time - usually a poweroff for a few seconds fixes it. > > > > But the machine has booted successfully into the new installation. > > Is there anything that can be debugged whilst it's booted? > > > > -- > > Stuart Winter > > www.armedslack.org > > > > > -- Stuart Winter www.armedslack.org From jawkins at armedslack.org Tue Dec 18 21:13:25 2007 From: jawkins at armedslack.org (Jim Hawkins) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:13:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA In-Reply-To: References: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Stuart Winter wrote: > Starting X results with: > (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device > (EE) No devices detected. > > where as normally it'd start X running on the RiscPC's display. > This problem is a that there's no VGA at all. Does dmesg have anything exciting to say? Jim From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Tue Dec 18 21:22:27 2007 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA In-Reply-To: References: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > > where as normally it'd start X running on the RiscPC's display. > > This problem is a that there's no VGA at all. > > Does dmesg have anything exciting to say? These seem the most related Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback On node 0 totalpages: 32768 DMA zone: 384 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 32384 pages, LIFO batch:7 Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 32384 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdd2 ro PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x30 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) ... coherent allocation too big (requested 0x200000 mask 0xffffffff) acornfb: unable to allocate screen memory acornfb: probe of acornfb failed with error -12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 From m-lists at biscuit.org.uk Wed Dec 19 14:51:39 2007 From: m-lists at biscuit.org.uk (Stuart Winter) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:51:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [armedslack] RiscPC booting installation but without VGA In-Reply-To: References: <701748c70712181215s636100cw6729fee2df7219b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > > Does dmesg have anything exciting to say? > > These seem the most related Jim had a look and believes that the boot loader (GRUB in our case) isn't passing the correct amount of VRAM to the Kernel. I think Jim said he was going to fix GRUB ;-)