Video hangs on Indy after "upgrade"
Hi,
I am "lucky" enough to have access to several indys. I had (up until
thursday night) an R5000/150 with 8bit graphics, and an R4600SC/133
with 24bit XZ graphics. One look at the XZ board suggested it would
be a pain in the rear to change, so initially I changed the
processor, ram and HDD from the R5000 onto the R4600 system. However
the R4600 board didn't want anything to do with this new fangled
R5000 processor, and I didn't feel like doing a PROM upgrade, so I
swapped everything back and took out the video boards from both
systems and swapped the XZ into the R5000. No small feat either, but
no problem really.
It powers on, and goes into maintenance mode, and lets me do hinv and
displays the correct details, but once you type boot, or let the
system boot up, the display and the system hangs. Or so I thought.
Today, fresh from a weekend of messing around with a new PC, which
caused me just as much fun, I listened carefully and it sounded like
it was booting up.. even tho the screen wasn't updating and just
sitting at the "Welcome to INDY" screen with "Starting up the system"
showing. I hop back on my Mac.. and was able to ssh into the machine..
So basically, it's up and running, but the video so isn't working.
Has anyone got an R5000 to work with Linux and an XZ graphics board
and has any tips or hints?
Thanks.
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