Re: SX164 installation
=> On Wed 16 Sep 1998, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote:
=>
=> > whether or not the Alpha is completely dead. Oh, the video
=> > card is a Matrox Millennium II, with XF86_SVGA.
=>
=> I've had a couple of problems with the Millenium II as well, it crashes
=> equally spectacularly when trying 24 bpp, or when running xcrystal. I
=> was thinking of trying the Metrolink server announced here today.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that one. 24 bpp doesn't work for me either, but
that's not Debian specific, of course. It dies with RH as well. 16 bpp is
fine, though.
=> > o I'm still going with the RH Kernel. I discovered that the
=> > Kernel that comes with the resc disk fails to detect the
=> > PS/2 mouse. So, as you can imagine, no gpm, no X. Might
=> > this be related for some obscure (to me) reason to the
=> > failure to load the ramdisk I and others observed?
=> BTW, you did remember to tell the kernel to assign 5MB for the ramdisk
=> instead of the default 4MB? "ramsize=5120k" or so, it's in the README
=> for the lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr boot floppies...
Yes, I did that.
=> If that's not the problem, it would be interesting to know what RH does
=> differently, so that their kernel works. Is their .config file
=> available?
It should be. My RH partition is still there, I can try to dig out
something.
=> As I've written previously, I use my XLT successfully with 2.0.36-pre-2,
=> no extra patches needed. See the "ISDN" subject for details.
Ok, good. Thanks a lot.
=> Paul Slootman
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