King of Framebuffers ........ I wish (-: Last night I tried to install an other brand of linux (shall remain nameless but there is a "hat" involved) because I have had problems getting hold of potato for alpha. I assume that my problems are generic rather than with the "hatted" brand.
When booting the AlphaServer 1000A from SRM with a CD the GUI install the screen goes blank as it the VGA card is not supported. After replacing the VGA card with a more generic Cirrus card all went well ... almost (a story for another day). The screen went blank also when booting with the Voodoo3. I have heard it rumoured that Alphas have problems with fancy video cards .... is this true? Should I just go back to Potato for Sparc? Are Alpha's too much hassle? Cheers Iain ______________________________________________________________ Iain Johnstone Technology Engineer, GIO, ESO NT Agilent Technologies UK Limited. South Queensferry, Scotland, EH30 9TG. Telnet 313-3367 External +44 (0)131 331 6367 Home Office +44 (0)141 636 9039 Mobile +44 (0)705 0044753 Mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://www.agilent.com http://www.hp.com ______________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2000 16:08 To: JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: FrameBuffers On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote: > Are there limitations on what king of framebuffer can be useds on Alphas ... > in particular can I use my Voodoo3 3000 in my AS 1000A? King of framebuffers? Wish I had one of those! All joking aside, there are only a few "framebuffer" drivers that work on Alpha (that is, using the framebuffer device driver). I just quickly looked in the kernel docs and the only ones that I could find listed are the Matrox and TGA framebuffer drivers (the docs may be outdated, though). HOWEVER, this does NOT preclude you from using that card in an Alpha. In fact, most Voodoo3 cards are known to work in Alphas (I haven't heard of one that doesn't yet), although we don't have an X server for them yet in the stable tree of Debian. You could compile one, however, if you're so inclined to install XFree86 4.0.x. C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
