Jay, The machine is a Noritake DEC 1000A 5/400 RM.
SRM was fine with the Voodoo. Initially I had problems with GUI install of Debian but then booted up with "text". The installation went well after that. However no matter how many different permutations in XF86config I used the screen died. I switched back to the Number Nine card that came with the machine and everything worked well (as well as gnome can be with a 1mb card). Where do I get the ** LATEST ** bios? I managed to find and install 5.7 but nothing newer. Cheers Iain __________________________________________ Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.forwardcontrol.com http://www.agilent.com (work) -----Original Message----- From: Jay Estabrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2000 22:37 To: Iain Johnstone Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Single User Mode? On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:54:40PM +0100, Iain Johnstone wrote: > > As for the Voodoo .....mmmm. Bought some time ago for a wintel machine and > thought the 1000A would make a nice gnome workstation (overkill???) so put > it in there instead. Sort of given up now. I can get hold of a Matrox > Millennium so I will give that a try. What problems have you had? Does it get initialized under SRM via BIOS emulation or do you end up with black screen of death? Or is it the X server you're having trouble with? There are some patches for the problem on EV5 machines if that's what you are running into; let me know. Millennia of either flavor (I or II) should work well; again make sure you have a reasonably recent SRM console version, as a really old one will have trouble even with Millennia... > Oh .... now using RedHat on the machine. Would rather have Debain but all > seems to work although the 1meg video card gives me sh*t resolution. I > think I will stick with Sparcs in the future. Got the Alpha for around $100 > ... bargain?? 1. Yes, the builtin Trio64 is 1MB and slow; I assume you found the jumper that will disable it, so that other cards can be substituted? 2. I'd call it a bargain for an EV5; lots of PCI slots, robust PS, it can hold a fair amount of memory. Makes a UDB look petrified... ;-} --Jay++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----
