Hi, I've tried to send a reply to the list with an attachment, but it seems, that it was silently ignored. I'm now sending it without the attachment.
Am 14.03.19 um 00:17 schrieb John David Anglin:
Helge is right. Unless you are a ATI graphics card expert, you won't be able to fix the ring test failure.
I don't want to fix it, although my profession as a software engineer was the development and debugging of hardware control software. But I'm not an ATI graphics card expert and I think the graphics acceleration isn't very important. I don't want to do real work on this more than 13 years old machine. It's slow compared to current machines and it consumes almost 300W of electrical power without any load. All of my HP workstations are just museum pieces and to be authentic, all of them are running HP-UX, except for this one C8000. But anyway, it's interesting to see that an almost current Linux runs on it. But it seems to be a little bit fragile. I booted it today and all messages on the serial console seemed to be correct, but the connected monitor didn't show the KDE login screen, neither via the DVI nor the VGA connector. I tried to log in blindly and this worked, but the desktop was displayed only on the VGA connector. I logged out from the session and logged in again, but then the system freezes up after the desktop background was drawn. I had to switch it off and after powering it up again it crashed during the next booting. But eventually, after booting the machine a third time, everything works again as before. There are only a lot of "unaligned access" messages on the console coming from KDE applications, but I guess, that's a known issue. I've taken a photo of the console with the backtrace after the crash, but it doesn't seem to be possible to send a mail with an attachment. If anybody is interested, I could send it directly. Lothar -- Lothar Paltins lptm...@arcor.de
