Subject: Re: point52 not working on Beige G3
From: Anne et Bertrand (anneetbertrand@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 07:16:34 MDT
Well I first had the same problem but it was solved by using my old
nvram file in /usr/lib/mol/nvram. Hope your /usr/lib/nvram/nvram.rpmsave
is still a good one after two upgrades of mol.
I attach mine to this mail, in case of....
Adrian Simmons wrote:
>
> On upgrading to 0.51 mol ceased working on my G3.
> I just tried 0.52 and its still not working.
>
> Same result with both versions,
>
> run startmol
> patches kernel fine
> lists volumes ok
> startboing goes and get black window
> it is stuck at "RTAS instantiated"
> Nothing else happens, have to hit cntrl-c to quit.
> Output on terminal is shown below.
>
> Setup is :
> Beige G3/233
> Kernel 2.2.17
> Xfree4.01
> partition for mol has OS8.6
> I've run molvconfig and probed the current video
> mol was built from the src rpm
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> One more thing - a couple of times, when I've hit cntrl-c twice a
> message about broken threads has come up. Not sure wether this is an
> indication of the real problem or just because I force quit the emulator
> with cntrl-c......
>
> Adrian
>
> Here is the output from the terminal (used src rpm and don't seem to
> have a log file).
>
> Mac-on-Linux (C) 1997-2000 Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
> Using binaries and modules in /usr/lib/mol
> This kernel is NOT runtime patched
> Trying to apply MOL runtime patches.
> **** Examining '/boot/System.map' ****
> **** Success ****
> Patching the kernel...
> PATCH....0
> PATCH....1
> PATCH....2
> PATCH....3
> PATCH....4
> PATCH....5
> PATCH....6
> PATCH....7
> PATCH....8
> PATCH....9
> PATCH....10
> PATCH....11
> PATCH....12
> PATCH....13
> PATCH....14
> PATCH....15
> MOL runtime patch installed
> Trying to load the Mac-on-Linux kernel module.
>
> 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, 167:10 mticks/usec
> Using nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw'
> Video module 'xvideo' installed.
> Running on VT 9.
> Using adb mouse on /dev/adbmouse
> Cache enabled for console-video
> Video module 'console_video' installed.
>
> MODE: 640* 480, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 800* 600, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 1152* 870, depth 8,15,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
>
> Starting in video mode 1152*870, depth 32, 0.0 Hz [offs:0, rb:4608]
> Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'tap-<tap0>' @ 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF
>
> HFS disk: 1510 MB, /dev/hda6 [read-write]
> HFS disk: 2600 MB, /dev/hda5 [read-write]
> HFS disk: 206 MB, /dev/sda7 [read-write]
> HFS disk: 650 MB, /dev/sda8 [read-write]
> HFS disk: 479 MB, /dev/sda9 [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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