Hi Brian,

What I fail to understand is the install I did back in July /August
06 worked fine no probs, and it wasn't a fluke, I screwed up that
install about 3 times and re-installed and every time the pannel
worked.

The pannel works after install no matter how many times the qube is
rebooted, untill I change something, then it still works during boot
but dies befor it displays the ip and machine name.

I know it's not super usefull, but I'm a bit picky about stuff like
this, I want everything to be spot on.

--- Brian McEwen <bmcewen@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Glyn Astill wrote:
> 
> > yone got any ideas? I installed from the first disk a few months
> > ago onto a 40 gig drive and all was well, now I try to do the
> same on
> > a 320 gig drive and the LCD gets jammed on that bloody poffd
> screen
> > once I've set up the initial parameters.
> >
> > This sucks, someone please help.
> 
> Just checking, still all works fine but the display does not? 
> That's  
> been the case for literally years...until just recently; within the
>  
> last 6 months, April 2006, except for people who patched it on
> their  
> own. The display really is not super useful.  If anything "bad"  
> happens you still need a serial console to a laptop.
> 
> Be aware that until you reboot after install, you aren't testing it
>  
> really.  If the LCD works during the install, then goes away on the
>  
> first real boot, then it's just plain not working.  If it really  
> works and shows the IP address on the first bootup after install,
> and  
> all you have done is edit hostname info, etc, that's a little  
> surprising.
> 
> Someone posted that the display and paneld were working for them  
> right after the posting of the April 1 2006 build linked to here,
> and  
> indeed that is something mentioned in the description:
> -------------------
> As a proof of concept here is a CD with a 10 days old 3.99.17
> build:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cdi/cobalt/NetBSD3.99.17- 
> restoreCD.iso
> 
> Features:
> 
>   - 3.99.17 boot (i386) kernel and userland
>   - 3.99.17 remote (cobalt over NFS) installation kernel and
> userland
>   - Slightly improved LCD installation messages
>   - named.conf updated to use netbsd.org domain instead of  
> mfg.cobaltmicro.com
>   - paneld re-compiled for 3.99.17, seems to use 0.0% CPU now
> ------------------
> 
> That is the one you are using, right?
> So- what edits specifically are you doing that break it?  I know
> you  
> said you were following Shon's 1.6.1 install guide.  Perhaps do the
>  
> install just one more time, and make the edits one at a time,  
> rebooting between, so you know for sure what breaks it.  And,
> there's  
> no reason for it to stay broken if that's what is killing it-- if
> you  
> copy the files you are changing to a backup before you make the
> edit,  
> just restore the copy of the text file.
> 
> My LCD panel has been blank since July 2005.  Not holding me back
> at  
> all...
> 
> Also- if you do a ps -ax   does it really show poffd running?
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Brian
> 



Glyn Astill


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