[powerstation-owners] troubleshooting non-booting powerstation

[Jarod Wilson]

Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:52:00PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
[...]
>> 3) I have a number of biosemu* settings that Josh doesn't
> 
> New stuff, but that should not make a difference.
> 
>> No clue how it got to be this way. Running 'nvsetenv auto-boot?=true' 
>> under linux doesn't seem to do anything, should it? (apologies, I know 
>> squat about open firmware).
> 
> I probably need the complete boot log.

Sure, its pasted here:
http://fpaste.org/paste/539

> The graphics is the one that came with the PowerStation?

Yes, the stock Radeon X1650 Pro.

> What kind of monitor do you have connected?
> 
> If the monitor does not do DDC correctly the firmware cannot detect if a
> monitor is connected and assumes that no monitor is connected and serial
> is the output. That it still enables the USB keyboard is probably a bug.
> I would expect that it should not enable the keyboard, but I have no
> access to a PowerStation anymore so I have to guess here. Looking at the
> code it seems that the keyboard is enabled even if no "screen" is found.
> 
> So maybe you could try to use a different monitor to do a test.

As mentioned, 19" 1280x1024 LCD, but behind a KVM. Same display, things 
work much better, if the KVM is removed.

--jarod