Re: [ES40-developers] Interesting messages from NetBSD 4.0

[Brian W. <bdw...@in...>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:30 +0100, Fausto Saporito wrote:
> Hello Camiel,
> 
> so it seems the emulated graphic cards are not supported under NetBSD :-)
> Ok... I give up, and I'll try FreeBSD, maybe I will be more lucky.
> 

I've been looking at that off and on for ages and I can't figure out
what NetBSD is doing before it panics.  The only thing I was able to see
was it would look at the PCI config and then barf.  Tru64 also barfs
when trying to start up X.

I haven't been able to find an X server for freebsd, so if you find one,
let me know.

Brian

> Fausto
> 
> Quoting Camiel Vanderhoeven <iam...@gm...>:
> 
> > Hello Fausto,
> >
> > I'm no expert on NetBSD, but a quick google search on
> > "pci_display_console" and "255/255/0" leads me to a couple of
> > discussions on this message, all of them NetBSD on Alpha, so it looks
> > like it's something that happens on real Alpha's as well...
> >
> > Camiel.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Fausto Saporito <fa...@un...> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >>  between an OpenVMS installation and another, I downloaded the netbsd
> >>  4.0 cdrom.
> >>  The boot seems fine, but kernel goes in panic :-) at
> >>
> >>  panic: pci_display_console: no device at 255/255/0
> >>  Stopped at     0xffffffc00005da050:    ret (zero),ra
> >>
> >>  What is 255/255/0?? a PCI address?
> >>
> >>  regards,
> >>  fausto
> >>
> >>
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