Re: console for an alphastation200?

[larrys lexis-nexis com (Larry Snyder)]

Hi Angus --
My AS200 is a 4/233, but architecturally should be the same box.  Most
of the ones that were sold by onsale had number9 S3 video cards.
I've just started playing with a couple of Multias, which have embedded
TGA video H/W.  The Redhat CD has a TGA-specific Xserver for it.
Hopefully it'll get beyond 640X480 soon (if it hasn't already).

One of the first things I had to do after I built the box was to
upgrade egcs (in my case to 1.1b).  I couldn't build a kernel until
I did that  (got it from www.cygnus.com).

The other thing you may be running up against is a milo version
problem.  I'd been booting my AS200 from SRM, so I hadn't paid much
attention to it.  Once I started playing with the Multia, I got
nailed by a couple of faq's that said to dd (or rawwrite) the milo
stuff to a floppy.  Wrong!  I learned.  As Milo is built against
part of the kernel sources, you might want to get the latest
from gatekeeper.dec.com.

My apologies if I'm rambling on -- I'm just trying to cover the bases.
If I need to augment or detail anything, let me know.  If I could
get it working, I have no doubt anyone can.

a metric boatload is approximately equal to 1.06 English boatloads :-)

enjoy,
-ls-      
  


Angus Mackay <amackay@gus.ml.org> wrote:
> is an AS200 == alphastation200 4/166?
> 
> mine has a TGA 8 plane card in it like the 4 others that I saw.
> 
> I thought I made it obvious that I needed to get a TGA console working (at least
> that is what I think I need to do)
> 
> (amackay@skeena)~$ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-redhat-linux/egcs-2.90.29/specs
> gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
> 
> the kernels boots fine but once milo jumps to the kernel the console
> is left alone.
> 
> cheers, Angus.
> 
> ps. how many cubic furlongs in a metric boatload?
> 
> It would seem that Larry Snyder (larrys@lexis-nexis.com) said:
> > Hmmmm...here we go again :-)
> > What's your compiler version?  How about a copy of your .config?
> > What's your video hardware?  Most of the recently surplused AS200's
> > had an S3 card if one was included.  To paraphrase a very recent post:
> > There's a metric boatload of people ready to help.  Please provide
> > enough info and you'll be outa the woods in no time!  Unless you have
> > some really weird hardware, you don't need to modify the sources
> > at all.  Especially with 2.2.0-pre-2.
> 
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