Hi everyone, after a complete "dist-update" I have successfully booted with a full working SMP kernel: simone@blsw:~$ uname -a Linux blsw 4.4.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) parisc64 GNU/Linux Switching to "graph3" console, the kernel hangs when it tried to initialize the video card firmware. It said: r300 firmware not available. The very same issue happens with two ATI video cards: a Fire GL T2 and a FireGL X3. Now I have installed an old AGP NVIDIA; "lspci" produces .... 80:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11GL [Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go] (rev a1) .... With this NVIA, everythings run fine: boot OK, MATE desktop perfect, monitor automatically configured, etc. During the first installation from serial terminal, after the automatic hardware detection, the installation program asked for the firmware of R300 video card (not embedded in the ditstro because proprietary software). I have aswered "NO" becasue I donìt have this sofware. Usually, this binary blob should be included in the Linux kernel; or I have missed something ? Thanks in advance for your help. Simone Mannori - Italy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
