RE: Single User Mode?
Jay,
The machine is a Noritake DEC 1000A 5/400 RM.
SRM was fine with the Voodoo. Initially I had problems with GUI install of
Debian but then booted up with "text". The installation went well after
that.
However no matter how many different permutations in XF86config I used the
screen died.
I switched back to the Number Nine card that came with the machine and
everything worked well (as well as gnome can be with a 1mb card).
Where do I get the ** LATEST ** bios? I managed to find and install 5.7 but
nothing newer.
Cheers
Iain
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Estabrook [SMTP:Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com]
Sent: 25 September 2000 22:37
To: Iain Johnstone
Cc: 'debian-alpha@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Single User Mode?
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:54:40PM +0100, Iain Johnstone wrote:
>
> As for the Voodoo .....mmmm. Bought some time ago for a wintel machine
and
> thought the 1000A would make a nice gnome workstation (overkill???) so
put
> it in there instead. Sort of given up now. I can get hold of a Matrox
> Millennium so I will give that a try.
What problems have you had? Does it get initialized under SRM via BIOS
emulation or do you end up with black screen of death? Or is it the
X server you're having trouble with? There are some patches for the
problem on EV5 machines if that's what you are running into; let me know.
Millennia of either flavor (I or II) should work well; again make sure
you have a reasonably recent SRM console version, as a really old one
will have trouble even with Millennia...
> Oh .... now using RedHat on the machine. Would rather have Debain but all
> seems to work although the 1meg video card gives me sh*t resolution. I
> think I will stick with Sparcs in the future. Got the Alpha for around
$100
> ... bargain??
1. Yes, the builtin Trio64 is 1MB and slow; I assume you found the jumper
that will disable it, so that other cards can be substituted?
2. I'd call it a bargain for an EV5; lots of PCI slots, robust PS, it can
hold a fair amount of memory. Makes a UDB look petrified... ;-}
--Jay++
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