Re: AbiWord on Linux Alpha
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:01:05AM +0000, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
> And BTW, I built 2.1.129 for the Alpha, and it seems to work...
> all except there's no console. The 2.0.34 kernel I had (from
> the Debian distro) worked nice but felt a bit slow. The new
> 2.1.129 is pretty stock, including SCSI drivers for this
> machine (Multia 233) and the Digital ethernet card, but
> the console never shows on boot. The machine works fine otherwise
> (over the network).
>
> I've enabled the VGA console, not the framebuffer, and I have
> turned off the "serial console" option, although serial
> support is compiled in.
There's your problem: the UDB ("Multia") doesn't have a VGA onboard,
it has a TGA. 'fraid I don't know what you should configure that as
under 2.1.129, though. Perhaps there's a tgafb driver?
-andy
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