Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Jim Barker wrote: > I have this computer and was attempting to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 when I began encountering challenges. > Here are the challenges that I experienced and how I got around them when possible. > > problem: Live cd wouldn't boot > answer: Booted 32 bit kernel and set acpi-u

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

At your suggestion, I opened a bug with defect.opensolaris.org, the bug id is 6134. Thanks for your feedback. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

It looks until unable to initialize T-state is supported with 64bit, you need to use your earlier work around in "problem: Live cd wouldn't boot answer: Booted 32 bit kernel and set acpi-user-options=0x8" and you should submit a bugid on your dmesg output of : prtdiag -v ; /usr/X11/bin/scancpi

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

I downloaded snv_b105 and attempted to boot off of the dvd and is sat at a blinking cursor right after the following. SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_105 64-bit Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. When booting with the -kv option it st

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Can you try loading snv_b105 and do regression load of Solaris 10u6 download from http://www.sun.com/download -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Apparently Novell has certified this device for use with SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLED 10. http://developer.novell.com/yes/103724.htm -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opens

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

I was unable to locate a "VT" option in the bios. The BIOS version number is 786G1 v01.08. Thanks for the tip. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Just a guess: I have seen 64 Bit support very often disabled in the BIOS of HP machines. You may want to have a look there and enable VT. Good luck! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensol

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

I was hoping to hear of other folks having problems with this specific piece of equipment, but apparently I have something that is not common place in the OpenSolaris world. I will see if the next release of OpenSolaris works better and try again. If someone needs more information specifically

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

can you post the following: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log ; prtdiag -v ; dmesg ; /usr/X11/bin/scanpci ; prtpicl -v ; prtconf -Dpv -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Now I am having serious xorg issues. I am attaching the ./.xsession-errors file. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org xsession-errors Description: Binary data ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Update: I ran the kmdb with the live cd and here are the last few lines of the result. I had to type this out, so please forgive any mistakes, the spacing most likely isn't correct. [0]> ::step <-[mkmdb: target stopped at: kmdb_enter+0xe: call-0x5b3 [0]> ::step out <-[mkmdb: target stopped

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Update: I tried to see if I really needed the acpi-user-options setting to boot and when I removed that setting I was still able to boot. I am still not able to boot the 64 bit kernel and I will step through the kmdb boot tomorrow and post the findings. Jim -- This message posted from openso

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

It'd be good if you can post the logs from debug boot. First try adding just -kv to the kernel option. If it just reboots, use -kdv and step through. I would have loved to give more details, but they have been repeated numerous times here. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

Update: The xscreensaver issue was worked around by disabling the power management option. This is probably related to the acpi-user-options flag I had to set at boot time. Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mail

[osol-help] HP 7900eC with intel E8500 processor and intel graphics Q45 GMCH

I have this computer and was attempting to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 when I began encountering challenges. Here are the challenges that I experienced and how I got around them when possible. problem: Live cd wouldn't boot answer: Booted 32 bit kernel and set acpi-user-options=0x8 problem: Xsc