RE: FrameBuffers
OK, Debian it is, just having problems getting hold of potato at the moment.
Nothing was passed to the kernel on boot.
I would like to hope that they are not too much hassle. I have a SparcUltra
1 running RedHat that I would like to replace as my workstation with the AS
1000A with my Voodoo3 running Debian and Gnome. I think/hope that it would
be a bit faster that the sparc (-:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henry House [mailto:hajhouse@houseag.com]
Sent: 06 September 2000 16:44
To: JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1)
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FrameBuffers
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:20:44PM +0200, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1)
wrote:
> Last night I tried to install an other brand of linux (shall remain
nameless
> but there is a "hat" involved) because I have had problems getting hold of
> potato for alpha. I assume that my problems are generic rather than with
the
> "hatted" brand.
Not necessarily. The Debian installer is by far the best installer for an
alpha distro that I have seen. The others seems to be strait ports of
Intel-platform installers.
> When booting the AlphaServer 1000A from SRM with a CD the GUI install the
> screen goes blank as it the VGA card is not supported. After replacing the
> VGA card with a more generic Cirrus card all went well ... almost (a story
> for another day). The screen went blank also when booting with the
Voodoo3.
Could be any number of problems. Did you play around with the video settings
by passing various arguments to the kernel?
> I have heard it rumoured that Alphas have problems with fancy video cards
> .... is this true? Should I just go back to Potato for Sparc? Are Alpha's
> too much hassle?
They're definately not too much hassle. But it depends what you want to do
with your machines; if you want top processor performance and a fully 64-bit
userland, Alpha is the only choice. (Unless the 64-bit SPARC userland
project
is further along than I thought?)
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