Re: Have my PA8800 back online...

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 12/04/2017 05:59 PM, John David Anglin wrote>>> I think this is a 
palo bug.  The rp3440 has a ATI RV100 graphics
> > > interface that doesn't work.  Early units
> > > had a VGA connector on the back.  Latter, it was completely covered 
> > > over.  It looks like palo has selected
> > > the graphics interface rather than the serial ttyS0 port.
> > No, palo will not choose the graphics card if it wasn't started on 
> > graphics console.
> But the snippet that Frank posted showed the graphics console was selected:
>
> [...]
> [    0.001572] Console: colour dummy device 160x64
> [    0.002947] console [tty0] enabled

Yes, but this was not selected by a configuration of a kernel argument. 
I removed the console argument added by palo before booting the kernel. 
So I assume the kernel selected tty0 by itself, maybe a default, if 
nothing else was selected as console device.

Frank