Re: Video problems during 2.2 install

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Larry Elmore wrote:
> I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video
> card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480
> resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but
> it's a whole _lot_ nicer with it).
> 
> The Debian 2.2 boot disk apparently displays some graphic of a penguin
> when it starts up the kernel (so I've been told). All I know is that
> my monitor goes _dead_ at that point, as dead as if I pulled the cable
> from the video card. There's disk activity afterwards, and if I put in
> the root disk after it stops, and press <ENTER>, it appears to load it
> into RAM. Still no display though, which makes further progress pretty
> much impossible. Is there any way to turn off this graphic so I can
> install 2.2?

Not sure, but I don't think the framebuffer is enabled by default (this
is what'll load that penguin logo).  Anyway, you can check while doin
the installation by switching to another VT, login as root and look at
/etc/lilo.conf.  To enable the framebuffer, it'll have a line like
'append="video=vesa:..."'.  If it does have such a line, just remove it
and rerun lilo.  Otherwise, I'd say the problem is elsewhere.

> I can open up my machine and remove the PCI video card and disconnect
> the monitor, borrow a 15" monitor and hook it up to the motherboard's
> video and install it that way, but if there's a switch to pass to turn
> off the graphic, I'd much rather do that. I really hope that answer's
> not in the release or install notes or I'm going to feel really dumb
> because I've gone over them a couple of time now without seeing any
> mention of this...
> 
> The 2.1 disks work on my machine, but absolutely refuse to recognize
> my UDMA controller and the hard drive on it that I want to put Linux
> on. I pass the proper parameters (linux ide2=0xfca8,0xfcba
> ide3=0xfcb0,0xfcbe) and I can see that the kernel finds the drive just
> fine as it boots (the partition is type Linux and formatted ext2fs).
> The install program does _not_ see that drive at all, though.

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