From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 2 15:45:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC46537B405 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:45:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BCA43EB2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02NjNro002020 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:45:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h02NjIv48850; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:45:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15892.53006.681799.226399@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:45:18 -0500 (EST) To: "Istvan Gyenes" Cc: Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 install error on Avanti In-Reply-To: <01cc01c2b2b7$b357a4e0$d2b4ded5@nala> References: <01cc01c2b2b7$b357a4e0$d2b4ded5@nala> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Istvan Gyenes writes: > Hello All, > > I've tried to install FreeBSD-5.0-RC2 on an Alphaserver 300 4/266. The > console was a serial one (the SRM env was also set to serial). > > I've got a lot of: > "scrn_update(): scp->end 0 > size_of_screen!! > scrn_update(): scp->start -1 < 0" > errors. > The weird thing the same cd worked well on the EB164. > The only difference between the two machine that the EB has no video card. > Could it be the problem? Yes: > tga0: mem 0x88000000-0x88ffffff > irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0 > tga0: Board type (null) > tga0: 1024 x 0, 8bpp, IBM561 RAMDAC > tga0: interrupting at ISA irq 10 > tga0: TGA2 (21130) pass 2 The TGA driver is mostly experimental. And it is very poorly tested except on TGA1 boards. I think that the install should work just fine if you open the box and remove the graphics card. Sorry about that. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message