Re: Newbie installation prob: Screen zonky
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:45:53PM +0200, Samy Merchi wrote:
> AGA Amiga, no gfx card, 68060, Blizzard 1260 with SCSI kit, IDEfix 4-way
> adapter, Philips CM8833 monitor. Downloaded amiga/amigainstall.lha and
> common/base2_1.tgz from ftp.debian.org today.
>
> Unarchived the lha to a HD partition, put the tgz into the debian
> directory, created two new partitions (one for files, one for swap). I
> click on the 'StartInstall' icon, the console window comes up, gives
Which "StartInstall" did you use? There should be 4, _the_ StartInstall plus
StartInstall_CV64, _CV3D and _clgen. The last three are for graphics boards,
the first one (StartInstall) should work for you. It worked for me, AFAIR it
uses the current native mode or pal or something. Maybe you have to specify
it, since you are using an AGA machine. The kernel docs list: video=pal or
video=pal-lace, both have been working for me. Maybe you want to use ntsc or
ntsc-lace. The 31kHz modes probably don't work with the 8833.
Try:
amiboot-5.6 -d -k linuxamiga -r rootamiga.bin root=/dev/ram video=pal
or pal-lace, ntsc or ntsc-lace. Details are in the kernel-source (and in
the FAQ I bet ;-)
linux/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
> the debugging information. I hit enter, gives some more debug info,
> then after it's done, it waits for enter again. I press enter, screen
> goes gray for a moment, then it gives a black and white screen, but the
> screen is all zonky and spins around with no recognizable graphics or
> text to be seen.
Cool, thats a feature not a bug ;-)
Honestly, this might be bad for your monitor... maybe we need a
StartInstall_AGA_on_A1084S/CM8833 script? Or scripts specifically for pal,
pal-lace ntsc, ntsc-lace and the aga mode(s?) I see 20 in total, it might get
crowded in that drawer. Or the Install guides get some polishment, Michael?
;-)
> Is it possible that this is because my monitor can't display whatever
> screenmode Linux requires? If so, is it possible to change whatever
> screenmode Linux boots into?
The CM8833 is a bit limited in its frequency range (15.6kHz?) but it can be
used for Linux, it has been working fine at my A2k under Linux until it
broke down.
pal-lace gives you a reasonable large display, but its interlaced and quite
a pain in X.
Ciao,
Christian.
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