On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> This could be the reason X crashes (having changed the display card).
> Most people would suggest adding a level 3 boot option before you do
> this, so you can run (XFDrake|Xconfigurator|XF86Setup). XFdrake will
> also let you know if xfs is running.
X doesn't crash - I mustn't have made that clear. I boot to a console, and the
login screen vanishes from the console before I can log in. The three fingered
salute returns a visible console, and starts a shutdown. I can get in with the
new system, or rescue disks, but can't find anything :-(
> > DMA Disabled hdd: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > DMA Disabled hdc:
> > ide 1 reset: success
> > Prompt#
>
> This is the ide driver giving up on you ide controller.
I thought it was giving up on the drive :-/. Could it be a chipset problem?
The kernel was built for a '586 - 133 with a bogstandard chipset; I upgraded to
a K6/2-500 with an Apollo P5MVP3 chipset and never rebuilt. DMA is enabled by
default, and SHOULD work.
> > Then I found this in /var/log/messages on the old drive. At THIS stage
hdb = > > Seagate 4.3 Gig drive with hdd my new 6.5 gig drive.
> >
> > Nov 5 19:23:26 genius kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady
>SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > Nov 5 19:23:26 genius kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> > Nov 5 19:23:26 genius kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
> > Nov 5 19:23:26 genius kernel: ide0: reset: success
>
> Same thing here. Did you have this problem before, and did you change
> any settings with hdparm ? You might want to disable it or changing the
> settings with hdparm. I'm not sure where mandrake put the "use harddrive
> optimisation" setting ...
I took HDPARM out of /etc/sysconfig/system in my old system (Thanks Bill) and
booted it. I got to the login promp (Hurray), and then the screen vanished as
before (Boo). At least it got past hard drive optimization. That must be a
malfunction of the Seagate drive. I took out my old motherboard because the two
hard drives would vanish periodically, usually under load in linux (ON THAT
SAME SEAGATE DRIVE). I needed an upgrade anyhow.
Now the only thing I have to figure out is why on earth the old system dies
after a second whether I log in or not. Saying "No" to everything in the
Interactive startup still produces exactly the same symptoms; All 6 consoles
go blank, and about once per second there is a little hd activity, accompanied
by a glimmer of something onscreen. No shapes, just a flash. I have tried with the 2
old kernels
(2.2.13-7 & 2.2.14-15) with nothing in the interactive startup going, and one
second after that system shows me a login console, it's gone :-(
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