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Bug#320814: marked as done (xserver-comm 4.3.0.dfsg: fails to run the x-windows system on alpha machine)

Your message dated Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:14:11 +0200
with message-id <468C29C3.20006@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line ping timeout, closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: xserver-comm 4.3.0.dfsg
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg
Severity: important

I've been trying very hard to get Debian to work on my Alpha machine,
which has a DEC pc164lx motherboard and was assembled by Polywell
Computers.  The machine has the original Diamond Stealth 64 968 vram
pci-bus graphics card with 4MB of vram.  My understanding from the
xfree86.org website is that this S3 86c968 graphics board has a ti3026
clockchip and a ti3026 RAMDAC.

The log report, with my current XF86Config file, indicates that the
RAMDAC probe failed.  The config file specifies the RAMDAC and I have
also tried it without specifying this component.

Debian Sarge stable is running very well, except that xfree86 won't run.
This system is running on two scsi hard drives.  The computer also has
an 80 GB EIDE drive on which SuSE 7.1 is installed (out of frustration
trying to get the Debian x-windows server to work).  The SuSE
installation runs fine with X using an SGVA server and my Viewsonic
PT775 monitor at 1280x1024.  However, Debian Linux is much better and
SuSE no longer supports the Alpha processor systems, at least not at the
user retail-distribution level.  My SuSE release is 7.1 (2000).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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Closing this bug since I didn't get any reply from the submitter (or
repliers) after my ping about a month ago. If anybody ever reproduces
this problem, feel free to reopen.

Brice

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