Hi Lothar, On 18.03.19 20:39, Lothar Paltins wrote: > Am 18.03.19 um 15:10 schrieb Helge Deller: >> It should boot further than that. >> Which palo version are you running? >> Did you ran "palo -v" before reboot? > > No, I didn't know, that this is necessary. After "palo -v" the system > is booting now. Booting continues now with "Uncompressing ...". The > old palo (1.95) seems to be unable to uncompress the kernel.
This "Uncompressing..." happens in the kernel itself, it's not part of palo. I think the problem was, that the old palo had a bug which couldn't cope with kernels bigger than a specific size (and other bugs). Anyway, good to know that updating palo fixes the issue. >> I pulled out any graphics card of this machine though. > > And this seems to be necessary. It's still pure chance, whether the > graphics card is working or not. It may even cause a crash during > booting. Here's a boot log of a crash: > > [ 93.621614] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. > [ 93.871832] radeon 0000:80:00.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0107 -> 0147) > [ 94.010799] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV350 0x1002:0x4154 > 0x1002:0x0002 0x80). > [ 94.179812] ipmi 16: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00000b, prod_id: 0x8201, > dev_id: 0x32) > [ 94.219177] [drm] GPU not posted. posting now... > [ 94.347007] ipmi 16: IPMI kcs interface initialized > [ 94.512299] radeon 0000:80:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode > [ 94.599144] radeon 0000:80:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x60000000 - 0x7FFFFFFF > [ 94.599165] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory > [ 94.599179] radeon 0000:80:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0xFFFFFFFFC0000000 - > 0xFFFFFFFFC7FFFFFF (128M used) > [ 94.599496] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M > [ 94.599504] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR > [ 94.603570] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 8218164 kiB > [ 94.603578] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB > [[ 94.603584] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator > [ 94.887738] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready > OK 94.887756] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. > m] Found device 94.888008] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes > initialized > ;1;39m82540EM Gi[ 94.923120] radeon 0000:80:00.0: WB disabled > gabit Ethernet C[ 94.923159] radeon 0000:80:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 > use gpu addr 0x0000000060000000 and cpu addr 0x000000002cdcd946 > > ontroller. > [ 94.930972] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). > [ 95.807136] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. > [ 95.807402] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. > [ 95.807548] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode > [ 95.835137] radeon 0000:80:00.0: firmware: failed to load > radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) > [ 95.835160] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for > information about missing firmware > [ 95.835172] radeon 0000:80:00.0: Direct firmware load for > radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2 > [ 95.835558] [drm:r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! > [ 95.835581] radeon 0000:80:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2). > [ 96.503094] radeon 0000:80:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration > [ 96.504398] [drm] radeon: cp finalized > [ 96.531896] [drm] radeon: cp finalized > [ 96.683535] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator > [ 96.735229] [TTM] Zone kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB > [ 96.735229] [TTM] Zone dma32: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB > [ 96.735229] [drm] radeon: ttm finalized > [ 96.735229] [drm] Forcing AGP to PCI mode > [ 96.793669] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory > [ 97.099110] radeon 0000:80:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0xFFFFFFFFC0000000 - > 0xFFFFFFFFC7FFFFFF (128M used) > [ 97.099121] radeon 0000:80:00.0: GTT: 512M 0xFFFFFFFFA0000000 - > 0xFFFFFFFFBFFFFFFF > [ 97.099142] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M > [ 97.099149] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR > [ 97.203340] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 8218164 kiB > [ 97.203349] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB > [ 97.203356] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator > [ 97.203554] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready > [ 97.203563] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. > [ 97.203683] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 > [ 97.396449] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized > [ 97.396472] [drm] PCI GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000043D00000). > [ 97.396631] radeon 0000:80:00.0: WB enabled > [ 97.396652] radeon 0000:80:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr > 0xffffffffa0000000 and cpu addr 0x00000000e3b927cf > [ 97.396665] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). > [ 97.396671] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. > [ 97.396753] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. > [ 97.396763] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode > [ 97.396855] radeo > > At this point it crashed with a blinking red LED. > > But even if the graphics card works, it's almost unusable now. The > previous version with KDE4 worked reasonable fast, but the new Plasma > desktop is incredibly slow. Even the simple systemsettings5 > application uses about 100% CPU time and everything reacts extremely > slow on keyboard and mouse events. Ok, that needs more analyzing. Hard to say from here what's wrong. I can try to debug further when I found time at some point. Helge
