Are you shure it is an Elsa Gloria and not an Elsa Synergy ?The error indicates either a bad video driver or wrong pci adress. After updating to the new SRM Console it probably deleted Alphabios - but I think the ES40has dual boot capability - so it should be possible to install both. But this has nothing to do with the other problem.Regards,Ian
--- John Lloyd <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi, 31.12.2008: Von: John Lloyd <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: Need help with ES40 installation, please An: [email protected] Datum: Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2008, 17:13 Seems like a lot of hardware for a desktop, but anyway... You might have better luck with a different video card. I have a radeon 9250 in my xp1000, which seems to work quite well. If you use tru64, I know the 7500 is supported. Any radeon up to the 9250 should work with xorg. Alternately, I've read that the rage works well too; I think you can get them new for about $15, and ebay is always an option. Also, make sure your video card is in hose 0; otherwise, you will probably have problems. Regards Gatto > 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. --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
