Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:01:29 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org> Cc: "bob@Moronco.net" <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>, "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues) Message-ID: <15463.52921.168921.389140@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202110655520.26663-100000@saruman.xwin.net> References: <15462.61133.279002.797760@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202110655520.26663-100000@saruman.xwin.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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