Hi Mike,
 
Thanks for the reply.
 
It was running SMP. Rebuilt an image using startup-apic and procnto-instr. Same result - black screen, but also...
 
Very slow to login - it looks like io-usb is sucking up a *lot* of CPU. With 2 CPUs, I had an unused one, so no slow 
down.
 
So, no cigar yet, but it yielded a nice clue...
 
Regards
 
Dave

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From: Michael Van Reenen [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: Fri 3/19/2010 10:11 AM
To: sdpprereleases-community
Subject: RE: Photon issues w. startup-apic




My first guess from the messages below would be that the driver isn't
getting interrupts but can't say why..

Is this multi-core?  I apologize for my ignorance but if its possible -
can it run single-core as a test?  Just thinking out-loud.

------
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bott [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: March 19, 2010 1:01 PM
To: sdpprereleases-community
Subject: Photon issues w. startup-apic

Neutrino install works fine from the M9 CD on an ECS-M3 motherboard
Graphics setup works - select i830 driver, 1280x1024, 60Hz. all good.
[Also tried using gma9xx with similar results]

With startup-bios, all is well.

However, if I use startup-apic and pci-bios-v2:

On reboot, screen goes black.

System is not dead though...
If I telnet in, I can see this from sloginfo:

Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: init...
Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: initialized.
Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: '/dev/phfont[<32|64>]'
server installed.
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 VGA primary : bus 0x0 dev/func 0x10
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 Found 1 PCI/AGP display devices
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 pci_init: found PCI device 8086:2772
Mar 19 17:04:42    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:42    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:43    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:43    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:44    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:44    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:45    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:45    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:46    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
[lots more of this message]

So it looks like something is not quite right...

The log with the gma9xx driver is:

Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: init...
Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: initialized.
Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: '/dev/phfont[<32|64>]'
server installed.
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 VGA primary : bus 0x0 dev/func 0x10
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 Found 1 PCI/AGP display devices
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 pci_init: found PCI device 8086:2772
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 Could not open config file "": No such
file or directory

Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038
Mar 19 17:11:27    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038
Mar 19 17:11:27    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038
Mar 19 17:11:28    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038
Mar 19 17:11:28    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038
Mar 19 17:11:29    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free =
4038



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