Re: IBM PS/2 troubles. (And maybe a bit of ranting)
Here's a good place to start for getting the specs on the machine,
where to get reference diskettes (which configure the hardware,
change bios settings, etc.), and more:
http://members.tripod.com/~ps2page/
Also try
http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~ch/psinfo/psinfo.1.toc.html
Hope this helps.
Curt Daugaard
cld@mcs.net
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 08:05:39PM -0500, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> I've got to set up Debian (hamm) on an IBM PS/2 system.
>
> It's a 486sx with 16mb of RAM, the bus's a Microchannel (MCA) one and the
> video chip seems to be a XGA-2 Display Adapter /A (directly on the
> motherboard). The drive bus is SCSI, and a few other marvels I haven't
> figured out. I can access a DOS prompt (linux is on /dev/hda5, which is in
> turn under an extended partition, /dev/hda4). My friend has bought it
> second-hand so no manuals nor any useful references are available.
>
> Here're the questions:
>
> - How can I get the max of information from the machine? (Model number or
> such things) There are no indications on how to reach the BIOS when booting.
> All I see is a memory test, and tada! it's already on the OS part of
> booting.
>
> - Where can I find useful docs about that? (except the obvious SCSI howto)
>
> - The XServer of choice seems to be either SVGA or AGX. Which you'd
> recommend? Also, the SVGA xserver (haven't yet looked at the AGX) specifies
> that it's configured for XGA-2 chips on the ISA bus. Is there a workaround
> to have it work on a MCA bus?
>
> - How stable/performing is the 2.1.13x kernel MCA bus code? How much can I
> rely on that code?
>
> - How much of a performance hit can I expect on compilation jobs from a
> kernel math emulator?
>
> - Where in hell can I find a dos-working version of Emacs? The
> most-recent/used and linux-version-like please. =P
>
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