On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:54:45AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> On 31-May-2006 t.sefzick@fz-juelich.de wrote:
> > I also tried generic.fs too, but it has no console.
> > 
> > Any ideas, how to proceed?
> 
> Hrmm.. There are a couple of possibilities here.. and I'm not sure which one
> you've hit.  You may have a supported video card, but we aren't resetting it
> properly, and the LCD never recognizes the mode as valid.  Another possibility
> is that we need to issue some command to turn the LCD itself on, and we aren't
> doing that.  Is the LCD powered up, just nothing on the screen?

The LCD is always on, showing this nice IBM RS/6000 logo with
a little blue dot in the lower right corner, which appears
when booting an operating system.

> A third possibility is that we don't support your card at all... yet..
> 
> I have a few suggestions of what to do next:
> 
> 1) Send the dmesg of the kernel you currently have running on the machine to
> the list.  That might help me get an initial idea of what is going on.

# dmesg
NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 03:10:58 UTC 2005
        builds@b2.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/prep/200512182024Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/prep/compile/GENERIC
Model: IBM PPS Model 7249 (E)
total memory = 65536 KB
avail memory = 59108 KB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 603ev (Revision 2.0), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0 90c000<DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE>
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: indirect configuration space access
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Motorola MPC105 "Eagle" Host Bridge (rev. 0x24)
pchb0: L2 cache: 256K, write-through mode
pcib0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: Intel 82378ZB System I/O (rev. 0x43)
pcib0: PIRQ[0]=15 PIRQ[1]=15
siop0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810 (fast scsi)
siop0: interrupting at irq 13
scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
vga0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: S3 Aurora64V+ (rev. 0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
IBM product 0x001c (undefined subclass 0x80, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 15 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0 mux 1
wskbd0: connecting to wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
isabeep0 at pcppi0
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 compatible time-of-day clock
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff irq 
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
biomask 2000 netmask 2000 ttymask 3082
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:..3..5..9..11
pcic0: using irq 3 for socket events
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
pcmcia0: card appears to have bogus CIS
pcmcia1: card appears to have bogus CIS
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, DDYS-T18350N, S96H> disk fixed
sd0: 17501 MB, 15110 cyl, 6 head, 395 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35843670 sectors
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 8), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
cd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <IBM, CDRM00204     !G, 1.0F> cdrom removable
cd0: async, 8-bit transfers
sd1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IBM, DPRS-21215    !, S80A> disk fixed
sd1: 1160 MB, 3489 cyl, 6 head, 113 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2376864 sectors
sd1: sync (100.00ns offset 8), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers
boot device: <unknown>
root device: sd0a
dump device (default sd0b): 
file system (default generic): 
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
WARNING: preposterous time in file system
WARNING: clock lost 7449 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
init path (default /sbin/init): 
init: trying /sbin/init

> 2) boot this kernel and send me or the list the output:
>         http://www.garbled.net/tmp/prep-residual-boot.fs

I'll try to find some time today or tomorrow to do it.

> ...
> 3) I really don't reccomend intstalling 3.0 anymore.  I've made huge changes to
> the prep port post-3.0, and one of the big ones was to simplify installation
> alot.  If you install -current, you no longer have to follow that crazy
> procedure, and in the future, you can upgrade the machine normally.  However,
> it's very difficult to upgrade a machine that was installed via that procedure,
> so you would be better off reinstalling.   Grab a snapshot from here, and
> install it instead:
>         ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/

Didn't find a prep directory there

> I'm really excited about seeing the information for this machine.. as this is
> one of the bizzare ones I've been hoping to see full data for.  I'd like to get
> support for these really working.

Seems, that there are not many of those existing.
BTW, this one a colleague found in an electronics waste container.

Thomas Sefzick