From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 20 11:55:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A2937B4C5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13mhK6-000ElH-00; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:55:22 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9KIw0813266; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:58:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:58:00 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Mike Eldridge Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Message-ID: <20001020205800.A13252@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001018214341.A4600@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from diz@cafes.net on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:38:48PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:38:48PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Here's the interesting part... When attempting to replace the firmware > with Wilko's version, the update process ran fine, but when it was > rebooted, I got nothing on the console. No output from the video > whatsoever. After a couple of reboots, still nothing. Does this firmware > not support video out or something? I then rebooted with a "failsafe" Yes, it does support video. At least for me.. > At this point, I'm not quite sure what's going on. I'm going to peruse > Compaq's site and see if I can find some more information. I don't give you much chance, Multia is sort-of the Vietnam of DEC. Not even Compaq: DEC. :-/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message