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Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
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Paul Halliday writes:
 > 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?

Well.. none of the pull's I've tried have had any problems.  I may
have an older stock than you do.  I think that the SRM's x86 BIOS
emulation code doesn't handle anything which requires better than a
286, so this might explain why fancy new cards don't work.

Drew

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