Hi all,
I posted the following in Debian forums and was instructed to post here.
>>Hoping there's an alpha guru here who will share a little time. I have been
>>attempting to get debian working on an alphaserver Compaq ES40. It has a scsi
>>controller, 35Gig (aprx.) scsi hard drive, cd, fdd, Ethernet, Elsa Gloria
>>Video, 4 500MHz CPU's, 4 gigs of ram, and I'm using a flatscreen (T.V)
>>monitor via a vga cable. At first I couldn't get the cd to work at all (even
>>though I checked MD5 and burned at 1X). Then I upgraded my SRM to 7.?
>>(whatever the most recent one was). The I was able to get the cd to boot to
>>aboot. I have installed twice using this netinstall cd, and everything
>>appears to go well until it tries to start x, both times fail to start
>>xserver. (no screens found). The second time I used aptitude to get KDE, but
>>it seems to act the same as Gnome. I have tried dpkg-update xserver-xorg and
>>manually chosen from the seemingly few video card choices and tried several
>>variations. My card is a PCI Elsa Gloria. I also tried getting the PCI
>>address and putting that in manually, but it didn't help either. Not sure if
>>it matters but... After I updated SRM, I've tried to access the alphabios
>>unsuccessfully, it just hangs forever after displaying message that it's
>>loading alphabios. My understanding is that I don't need that anyways, but
>>thought I'd mention the odd behaviour in case it means something. I loaded
>>Centos and it ran great, except I couldn't seem to find any good software
>>repository for it. Since I'm using the alpha as a desktop, I wanted Office
>>programs etc. I don't have a way to use a serial console instead of vga, so
>>not sure how to get any printouts of screen output into this message. Thanks
>>in advance for any help or suggestions.<<
