From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 11 5:29:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE44037B416 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:28:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1BDSZB08948; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:28:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:28:35 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Paul Halliday Cc: Andrew Gallatin , "bob@Moronco.net" , "H. Wade Minter" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues) Message-ID: <20020211142834.A8930@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15462.61133.279002.797760@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dp@penix.org on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:08:31AM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:08:31AM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > You're using a TGA. A TGA card is not supported. Use a serial > > console or replace the TGA card with any $5 used PCI VGA card you have > > laying around. > > I think you may be spiking the ball a bit with "any 5$ used PCI > VGA card". I have tried numerous cards including some ATI's and 3dfx that > seem to shit the bed when plugged into this machine. > > BTW, these machines typically shipped with S3 PCI VGA did they > not? S3 tends to work, as doe Number Nine, ELSA Gloria, Matrox Millenium, even an old Orcide Prodesigner (ISA) worked for me on Alpha. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message