Re: Alpha Server 2100 4/275 Compaq AVGA and XFree86 3.3.6
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:08:41PM +0000, Richard Page wrote:
> Jay, forget last message, I have got the TGA card working on the SRM
> but now it falls over during the boot sequence gets to aboot ok but
> when it gets to "starting kernel boot/Linux with arguments root=dev/ram"
> it just freezes!
Or, possibly, the kernel just booted doesn't have TGA support compiled in...
> Since I cannot see any reason for this to be related to the graphics card
> change I guess I need to look for a disk problem - don't you love it when
> multiple problems need isolating!
:-\
> I tried booting from floppy, 3.0r1 and r2 CD and the serge netinstall - back
> to a hardware fault unless you can think of any other likely problem!
Check the configuration files for those kernels and ensure that TGA support
is built in.
Good luck.
--Jay++
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