RE: [suse-axp] X errors in QT was TGA X Server, KDE (all alphasta tion users plea se read)

From: Wood, Justin (jwood@mhs52.tns.co.za)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 06:27:48 PST

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    From: "Wood, Justin" <jwood@mhs52.tns.co.za>
    Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:27:48 +0200
    Subject: RE: [suse-axp] X errors in QT was TGA X Server, KDE (all alphasta tion  users plea se read)
    

    Sven All

    I've had a look at all the specs that people have sent in and I can't seem
    to find any correlation. Only Lennart has sent in specs for his
    congifuration that works. Maybe we need some more specs of the working
    one's so we can compare. Check out Daniels boot.msg file at the end.

    ---------------
    Lennart's spec (Does work!!!!)
    BIOS 1.41 (this is the video BIOS)
    ARC 4.57, BIOS Emulation 2.05
    SRM 6.9-4, BIOS Emulation 1.15a
    AlphaStation 200 4/166
    SuSE 6.3 own kernel from SuSE 6.3 sources.
    Boots from ARC, can boot from SRM, too.
    Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro adapter
    The X-server is XF86_3Dlabs

    -----------------
    Daniels spec (Doesn't work)

    AlphaStation 400 4/233
    SuSE 6.3 Avanti kernel with SRM boot
    Digital ZLXp Graphics Controller
    XF86_TGA server
    --------------------
    Justin's spec (doesn't work but this spec worked fine with RedHat 6)

    AlphaStation 200 4/100
    SuSE 6.3 full_vm kernel
    S3 Virge Graphics adapter
    XFree SVGA XServer
    Bios 2.05
    Firmware ARC 4.57
    ---------------------
    Joerg-Uwe's spec (doesn't work)

    AlphaStation 200 4/100
    SuSE 6.3 full_vm kernel
    ATI MACH 64-CX Graphics adapter 2 MB
    SVGA Server
    SRM Console V 6.9-4
    ARC Console V 4.57
    BIOS ??
    ---------------------

    Daniel also sent me this. This looks like something solid. I'll also
    pull out my boot.msg file and send it to the list.

    Sorry about sitting on this for so long but it's just been hectically busy
    here ...

    Regards all
    Justin

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Daniel Broemmelsiek [mailto:broemmel@hb-nuhep.desy.de]
    Sent: 23 February, 2000 1:34 PM
    To: Wood, Justin
    Subject: RE: [suse-axp] TGA X Server, KDE

      Hi Justin,

       Yes, I've had the GTK app problem with the text on widgets. Here is
    the beginning of my boot.msg file which tells an interesting story.

    Loaded 6433 symbols from /boot/System.map.
    Symbols match kernel version 2.2.13.
    Error seeking in /dev/kmem

    Symbol #loop, value 0002c000

    Error adding kernel module table entry.

    klogd 1.3-3, log source = ksyslog started.
    <4>Linux version 2.2.13 (root@hb-nuhep) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
    19990314/Linux
     (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Mon Feb 14 09:34:39 CET 2000
    <4>Booting on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM
    <4>Command line: root=/dev/sdb2 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=boot/vmlinux.gz
    <4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
    <4>Calibrating delay loop... 230.16 BogoMIPS
    <4>Memory: 60832k available
    <4>DENTRY hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 131072 bytes)
    <4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
    <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes)
    <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
    <4>Alpha PCI BIOS32 revision 0.04
    <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
    <4>bios32 WARNING: slot 11, function 0 requests 0x8000000 bytes of
    contiguous ad
    dress space---don't use sparse memory accesses on this device!!

        As you can see, I built my own kernel, still have a /dev/kmem access
    problem from the System.map file, and looky there, a bios warning aimed at
    my graphics card in slot 11. Now, I wouldn't call this a problem with the
    PCI Bios, but I'll bet this means the Xserver and possibly some of the
    libraries as well, need to be recompiled properly.

        The firmware was the latest from the Compaq web site, something like
    v7.5 with both SRM and ARC console updates.

        I will be checking around today if there is some more up-to-date bios
    to be had.

        Thanks, Dan

    On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Wood, Justin wrote:

    > Dan
    >
    > Me again. Could you please try out some GTK apps and see if the text on
    > widgets is displaying correctly. If they are then I know that the GTK
    and
    > Qt problems that I have are related.
    >
    > Justin
    >



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