Re: Potato TestCycle 3 and CVision64
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:59:35PM +0200, Allan Rasmusson wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Has anyone else had problems using a gfxcard when installing potato testcycle
> > 3? No matter what videodevice I use my CVision 64 and scandoubler is not used.
> > Even if I use
> >
> > amiboot-5.6 -d -k root.bin root=/dev/ram video=amifb:pal
> >
> > I don't get a picture. I succeded in installing debian by using my old adaptor
> > and plugging the monitor into the amigas native video port and carefully
> > typing
> >
> > amiboot-5.6 -d -k root.bin root=/dev/ram video=amifb:vga
> >
> > in front of a black screen. I was hoping the problem would be fixed during
> > installation, but sadly it didn't. Any help?
> Did it work for you with previous potato testcyle versions?
> Did you try StartInstall_cv64? amigfb is for use with the native grafics,
> cyber is for the CV64 card. Not sure how good the driver is in the 2.2.10
> kernel, but I think I heard somebody was using it with more or less success.
> If it doesnt work out for you, you might have to use the 2.0.36 kernel,
> which AFAIK has better support for the CV64.
>
> No idea about the scandoubler, internal, external, on (cv64) board? Can it
> display all native (amifb) screens?
>
> Can you send us a log, dmesg should be on the CDs now.
It did work with an earlier intall. I haven't got the version number at hand
since I'm at the university exploiting their free internet.
When installing cycle 3 I followed all the steps for the cv64 from the install
doc TO THE LETTER, also trying the startinstall_cv64. The odd thing is that
not even pal mode gave me a picture. The signal must be sent directly to the
native video port as if the PASSTHROUGH variable is ignored. The -v option for
amiboot doesn't help either.
should amigfb and cyber be in /dev/ram after boot? They're not in my install.
Fbset tells med that /dev/fb1 is the cybervision card.
I don't know if I'm way off, but could it be that something is missing in my
drivers.tgz?
/Allan
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