Now that some of the problems I had (detailed in my other thread)
have been resolved, I am looking for help on my main issue: Getting
Debian Lenny to run on my TS-7800.
Hardware: TS-7800, TS-ADC16, TS7KV video card, with USB keyboard and
mouse. It boots up and runs OK, including a console on the video
display, using the "Sarge" version of Debian that comes with the
development kit.
What I want to do is bring up the latest "Lenny" version of Debian, and
run X Windows on the video console. Here is how I made my bootable SD
card:
1) I made a copy of the 2GB SD card that came with the development kit.
Remember, this has Sarge on partition 4. I copied this onto an 8GB SD
card.
2) I removed partition 4, then created a new partition that filled the
rest of the card (about 7 GB).
3) I downloaded the file debian-lenny-eabi-armel-512MB-mar032009.tar.gz
and un-gzipped it. Then I un-tarred the file and put all the resulting
directories onto partition 4 of the SD card.
4) Then I put the card into the TS7800 and it booted fine. I was able
to log into the serial console.
Question 1: Does all this sound correct? Or should I have also done
something with either the kernel image or the initial ramdisk in the
other partitions?
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At this point, the TS7KV was not doing anything. So...
1) I downloaded the load_ts7kv program and the ts7kv.bit bit stream. I
had to use the source version of load_ts7kv, but that compiled and ran
without error. Running it causes the green LED to come on, on the video
board. So I know the FPGA on the video board is properly initialized.
2) I then tried loading the modules which the video card needs, using
modprobe. I am able to load these modules: fb, cfbcopyarea,
cfbfillrect, cfbimgblit, ts7kvfb, font, softcursor, and bitblit. But if
I then try to load fbcon, which is the last module needed, that does
not work. Instead, the system seems to crash. The modprobe program does
not return, and I cannot interrupt it with ctrl-C or ctrl-Z. Also, if I
am logged into the board with ssh, that session locks up too.
Grant Peacock from TS suggested I remove the TS-ADC16, but that did not
help.
So...
Question #2: How can I find out what is going wrong with fbcon.ko, and
how do I fix it?
Question #3: Has anyone else successfully run Lenny on a TS-7800 with a
TS7KV? How did you do it? And can I have a copy of your image?
Note: Back in February, "Alberto" posted a Lenny image. I downloaded
that and try it, but (#1) it seems to not be for the TS-7800 and (#2)
it does not have the video drivers.
Any help would be appreciated.