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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Subject: Re: Installing
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Simon Shapiro, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote:
>  
>  Mike Smith, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote:
>  
>  ...
>  
> > > Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation?
> >  
> >  Any VGA card should do.  Make sure you plug a keyboard in too (or the 
> >  SRM console will still use the serial console.
> >  
> >  I'm using a nasty ISA Cirrus card in one machine and a old S3 PCI card
> >  in another.  The SRM has x86 emulation built in so it can run the card
> >  BIOS (ick!).
>  
>  Any SRM magic?  I plugged in an old ATI MAch64 and all it gives me is a
>  dark blue screen with no output at all, and nothing will boot now :-(

Cancel that.  Took ATI out, put cheap ISA Trident and it (the Trident) runs
as badly as anywhere else, only faster (?).

Simon


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