Subject: mol-0.9.52 statup trouble
From: Bhagwati P Gupta (bpgupta@its.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 16:01:40 MDT
Soon after Samuel announced that mol-0.9.52 is available for download, I
went ahead and upgraded the older version (0.9.50) that was working
well. However, after spending couple of hours trying to get it run on my
Powerbook G3, all I get is MacOS startup sound and blank screen.
Nothing seems to happen even after 10min of waiting. CPU activity is
quite heavy and persists until mol is killed. I finally gave up and
hoping that someone would provide a hint as to what I might be doing
wrong.
btw, I have a 2.2.14 kernel that I compiled myself with mol support
(mol-kernel-2.2.15pre4.patch). My MacOS version is 8.6.
The details of what I did follows -
- after upgrading from the older rpm (0.9.50-1.ppc.rpm), made some
changes to molrc file,
ram_size --> 96
blkdev: /dev/hda7 -rw
blkdev: /dev/hda8 -rw
(all others commented out)
video: tried both possible settings -
first, old one- 800/600/116.318Mhz
then, full screen mode- 1024/768/116/318Mhz
finally, the default one- 640/480/75Mhz
depth 32 (or 24)
start_on_console: no
autoswitch_console: yes
enable_console_video: yes
enable_xvideo: yes
keyboard _id: 195
- The startup message that I get, is following,
>>[bpg@dream bpg]$ startmol
>>Mac-on-Linux (C) 1997-2000 Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
>>Using binaries and modules in /usr/lib/mol
>>
>>Version 0.9.52
>>MOL kernel module 1.1.52
>>Resource file: /etc/molrc
>>Library directory: /usr/lib/mol
>>OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.nw
>>96MB RAM mapped at 0x20000000
>>Running in PowerPC 750 mode (G3)
>>DEC frequency: 16 MHz, 165:10 mticks/usec
>>Using nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw'
>>nvram, read_image: open: No such file or directory
>>Creating nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw'
>>Video module 'xvideo' installed.
>>Running on VT 8.
>>Using adb mouse on /dev/adbmouse
>>Cache enabled for console-video
>>Video module 'console_video' installed.
>>
>>MODE: 640* 480, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 800* 600, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 1024* 768, depth 15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15 { 0.0 } Hz
>>
>>No video mode match the default one.
>>Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 8, 0.0 Hz [offs:0, rb:640]
>>Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'sheep-<eth0>' @ FE:FD:DE:AD:BE:EF
>>
>>HFS disk: 1000 MB, /dev/hda8 [read-write]
>>HFS disk: 1500 MB, /dev/hda7 [read-write]
>>HFS disk: 0 MB, images/moldisk.im [read-only]
>>
>>
>>Mapping GC at 80800000
>>Starting emulation...
>>
>>RTAS instantiated at 00004000
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Bhagwati P Gupta
Biology 156-29,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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