Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this would have been: root(hd0,5) -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? while I have not changed this line. /boot is part of the / heirarchy, which is on /dev/hda6 assuming the disk is an IDE disk in the laptop. What I have is: IDE: FreeBSD, with FreeBSD MBR USB enclosure: first 2 partitions Windows hda5 - SWAP hda6 - / hda7 - /var hda8 - /usr hda9 - /tmp hda10 - /usr/src hda11 - /usr/portage hda12 - /home GRUB is instaled in MBR. Now, on boot, the FreeBSD bootloader gets me to the GRUB loader on the USB drive. What I believe I need to know is how to remap the partitions on the original IDE drive to SCSI partitions, because that drive is now in the USB enclosure. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from hda0,x to hda1,x, and attempted to boot Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with the: VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6) message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was a SCSI notation? My GRUB is: default 0 timeout 8 splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 title Windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I had hda0,X... I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't right... Thank you, Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:36:18PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: By way of contrast, I've been running Tyan and Supermicro boards with ATI radeon 9000 and 9200 cards for years without any issues on FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and now 6.0. I just use the supplied drivers that come with Xorg (XFree in the past). I replaced a failed ATI 9700 PRO with a GeForce 6300. ATI _NEVER_ supported that card with a Linux compatible driver. I have an HP ZD8000 with the ATI X300 card in it. You will never believe it, but... ATI _NEVER_ supported that card!!! I look at the list of cards nVidia supports, and make the decision to never again purchase another ATI card (okay, my Tyan K8WE has ATI, and I will used the chip, but it will be a firewall, so who cares?) simply due to their crappy support. No, I don't use 3D - but, if I wanted to/needed to, I feel nVidia at least offers me the chance of having it work. Now, granted, it may not work, but at least I have the chance. Plus nVidia offers native FreeBSD support, which is what my work- station and firewall run. Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. But they are working on it. If someone wishes to try it out, upgrade to modular Xorg (7.0), and get the drivers from CVS. See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building. What the heck, I have nothing to lose, since the fglrx driver hangs xdm and anything else that uses it (glx*), and the current open doesn't support the chip... My real issue is that fglrx worked under Suse 9.2, and not under Gentoo. But, no, I am NOT going back. Try installing xfishtank under Suse... Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon
Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: name of display: tigerprowl:0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. display: tigerprowl:0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: I am not sure what this means, however, as: (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module drm (II) LoadModule: drm (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER The Xorg.0.log file shows what seems to be the appropriate DRI module being loaded. I have: Section Device Identifier X600 Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection for the xorg.conf entry. Should it be ati? # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 98464 0 drm61592 1 radeon intel_agp 18332 1 agpgart27216 2 drm,intel_agp bluetooth 39652 0 libcrc32c 2816 0 crc_ccitt 2176 0 I assume intel_agp is appropriate for the 915 chipset? Thank you, Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bruce Burden wrote: Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the 20050502 version, Do an 'eix x11-drm' and see it lists a 20051223 version, keyword masked. (If you don't have eix, first run 'emerge eix' and 'update-eix'.) So do echo x11-base/x11-drm ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords and 'emerge x11-drm'. Okay, I have: * x11-base/x11-drm Latest version available: 20051223 Latest version installed: 20051223 Size of downloaded files: 549 kB Homepage:http://dri.sf.net Description: DRM Kernel Modules for X11 License: X11 * x11-drivers/ati-drivers Latest version available: 8.14.13-r3 Latest version installed: 8.14.13-r3 Size of downloaded files: 23,186 kB Homepage:http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets License: ATI # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 98464 0 drm61592 1 radeon agpgart27216 1 drm bluetooth 39652 0 libcrc32c 2816 0 crc_ccitt 2176 0 and nothing in /dev/dri, which may explain: (II) fglrx(0): UMM area: 0xc08f7000 (size=0x076f9000) (II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 6.8.x (II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 6.8.2 (II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI (II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module fglrx (II) fglrx(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit failed! (WW) fglrx(0): *** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available* (WW) fglrx(0): * * (this is from /var/log/Xorg.0.log) and, finally: [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the open some already present DRM kernel module! So, what am I doing wrong? The drm module seems to be the problem child, once I added that, fglrx got tempermental... Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the 20050502 version, which will not build. It complains about: I2C_ALGO_ATI is undeclared in the /usr/portage/tmp/portage/x11-drm-20050502/ work/drm/linux-core/radeon_i2c.c routine. Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!
Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss! Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of output or so. Drat! OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000 with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon. Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to X and fglrx, as the xorg.conf ATI driver doesn't do this. Modules: agpgart ati_agp fglrx Thanks, Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
