Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-16 Thread Jamie Gavahan 
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 20:12, matt wrote:
>
>> This is pretty much a show-stopper for me.  I guess it's time to find a
>> new
>> laptop with supported hardware.
>>
>>
>
> or a usb ethernet device
>

That is a good point.  I looked at what usb/ether supports and bought
an Arkview USB-G1000.

http://www.arkview.com/eshop/goods.php?id=29

It's a USB 2.0 adapter with the Asix A88178 controller.
If it's of interest, I'll let everyone know how it works.

- jamie

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread matt 



This is pretty much a show-stopper for me.  I guess it's time to find a new
laptop with supported hardware.

 


or a usb ethernet device

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread erik quanstrom 
> > sorry.
> >
> > i did turn off probing legacy ports unless a recognized
> > pci device was found.  this was paranoia on my part.  (i hope.)
> > just trying to get past our sata drives with ide programming interface
> > problem.  i've turned blind probing back on and will put out a new iso
> > shortly.  i've also added jmicron ide.
> 
> I kind of figured that the 9atom iso had certain fixes/targeted certain 
> hardware
> so I wasn't shocked when it didn't work (as expected).

it does have fixes targeted at ich7, ich7r, ich7m laptops.  i
did not intend to remove support for anything.  i just
miscalculated how many legacy-port ide drives there are
without a vid/did in sdata.c (sic).

- erik

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread Jamie Gavahan 
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:34, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg:
>> PBS1
>> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>> ELCR: 0CA0
>> pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found
>> aoepnp()
>> found 11 e820 entries
>> Boot devices: fd0 fd1
>> boot from:
>>
>> It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from.
>
> sorry.
>
> i did turn off probing legacy ports unless a recognized
> pci device was found.  this was paranoia on my part.  (i hope.)
> just trying to get past our sata drives with ide programming interface
> problem.  i've turned blind probing back on and will put out a new iso
> shortly.  i've also added jmicron ide.

I kind of figured that the 9atom iso had certain fixes/targeted certain hardware
so I wasn't shocked when it didn't work (as expected).

>> North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV
>> South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored
>
> this is okay.
>
>> NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA
>
> using the native nvidia driver is proablly a better idea.

I tried that initially, but was dropped to the Rc prompt after getting:
"aux/vga: nvidia: DID 0x0247 - 0x240 unsupported"

>> NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected
>
> there's no forcedeth support for plan 9.  sorry

This is pretty much a show-stopper for me.  I guess it's time to find a new
laptop with supported hardware.

I kind of expected this, but thought I'd put it out there in case someone,
somewhere was working on it.

Poor NVIDIA hardware support isn't surprising since they aren't very forthcoming
with hardware documentation.

>> NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy? see below...
>
> the controller should be just fine.  i used to have an
> nvidia controller and it worked just fine until it was
> taken out by an electricial storm.
>
> ati and intel chipsets tend to have the best support.

I downloaded a new plan9.iso and do not get the timout anymore.

-Jamie

Re: [9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread erik quanstrom 
> I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg:
> PBS1
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0CA0
> pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found
> aoepnp()
> found 11 e820 entries
> Boot devices: fd0 fd1
> boot from:
> 
> It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from.

sorry.

i did turn off probing legacy ports unless a recognized
pci device was found.  this was paranoia on my part.  (i hope.)
just trying to get past our sata drives with ide programming interface
problem.  i've turned blind probing back on and will put out a new iso
shortly.  i've also added jmicron ide.

> North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV
> South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored

this is okay.

> NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA

using the native nvidia driver is proablly a better idea.

> NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected

there's no forcedeth support for plan 9.  sorry

> NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy? see below...

the controller should be just fine.  i used to have an
nvidia controller and it worked just fine until it was
taken out by an electricial storm.

ati and intel chipsets tend to have the best support.

- erik

[9fans] laptop install woes

2009-08-15 Thread Jamie Gavahan 
I'm trying to get my circa 2006 laptop working with Plan 9.
Its a Gateway MX3414 with:

North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV
South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA
NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected
NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy? see below...

I am using the install CD from June 25th.
Boot messages, kmesg, pci output, and linux lspci output are attached.

There is a pause of 1-2 mins after each of the the
"reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg:off 0x600..."
messages are printed to the screen while booting from CD.
Then the startup menu appears. I boot from the CD and do not perform
an install yet.

I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg:
PBS1
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0CA0
pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found
aoepnp()
found 11 e820 entries
Boot devices: fd0 fd1
boot from:

It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from.

Thanks for any help.  Hopefully something can be worked out.

Jamie
PBS1
Plan 9  from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0CA0
pcirouting: South bridge 10de, 0260 not found
islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 48.0 cx 0x5
extgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x1
bios0: drive 0x80: 100,030,242,816 bytes, type 3
dev A0 port 1F0 config 0C5A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F  LLBA sec
tors 195371568
dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407
found partition sdD0!cdboot!; 52712+1440
reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg:off 0x600...biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x4
2 drive failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 0 of 0x80
reading drive 0x80 offset 1 into seg:off 0x600...biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x4
2 drive failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 1 of 0x80
Plan 9
E820:  0009dc00 memory
E820: 0009dc00 000a reserved
E820: 000d2000 0010 reserved
E820: 0010 3ef1 memory
E820: 3ef1 3ef18000 acpi reclaim
E820: 3ef18000 3ef8 acpi nvs
E820: 3ef8 3f00 reserved
E820: 3f00 4000 reserved
E820: e000 f000 reserved
E820: fec0 fec1 reserved
E820: fee0 fee01000 reserved
E820: fff8 1 reserved
126 holes free
00018000 0009d000 544768
002ee000 1000 265363456
265908224 bytes free
cpu0: 1605MHz AuthenticAMD AMD64 (cpuid: AX 0x40F82 0x178BF
BFF)
ELCR: 0CA0
pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI.0.10.0 10DE/0260
#u/usb/ep1.0 ohci: port 0xE000 irq 11
#u/usb/ep2.0 ehci: port 0xE0001000 irq 7
1007M memory 256M kernel data, 751M user, 1376M swap
usbd...root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdD0/data]:
kfs...version...time

init: starting /bin/rc
mouseport is (ps2, ps2intellimouse, 0, 1, 2)[ps2]:
vgasize [640x480x8]: 1024x768x16
monitor is [xga]: vesa
0.0.0:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02f30
0.0.1:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02fa0
0.0.2:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02fe0
0.0.3:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02f80
0.0.4:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02f90
0.0.5:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02ff0
0.0.6:  mem  05.00.00 10de/027f0
0.0.7:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02fe0
0.10.0: brg  06.01.00 10de/02600
0.10.1: smb  0c.05.00 10de/0264   10 4:3041 5:3001 64
0.10.3: ---  0b.40.00 10de/0271   10 0:b004 262144
0.11.0: usb  0c.03.10 10de/026d   11 0:b0004000 4096
0.11.1: usb  0c.03.20 10de/026e7 0:b0005000 256
0.13.0: disk 01.01.8a 10de/02650 4:3081 16
0.16.0: brg  06.04.01 10de/026f  255
0.16.1: aud  04.03.00 10de/026c   11 0:b000 16384
0.20.0: brg  06.80.00 10de/02690
0.24.0: brg  06.00.00 1022/11000
0.24.1: brg  06.00.00 1022/11010
0.24.2: brg  06.00.00 1022/11020
0.24.3: brg  06.00.00 1022/11030
0.3.0:  brg  06.04.00 10de/02fd  255
0.5.0:  vid  03.00.00 10de/02475 0:b200 16777216 1:c00c 268435456 
2: 16 3:b104 16777216 4: 16
0.9.0:  mem  05.00.00 10de/02700
6.9.0:  net  02.00.00 10ec/8185   11 0:6001 256 1:b3400 512
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [e0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed-

00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0317
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devse