Re: Powerstorm console goes blank during RH install

[Jamesvi asu edu]

The only thing that I can mention is that some of the Powerstorm series (I
don't know if all) have a cirrus chip on them for handling standard vga
stuff - not to be confused with the Evans&Southorland that actually handles
the hard stuff and makes the card so good.  However, there are no drivers for
any Powerstorm cards under Linux.  This means either it works for you with the
cirrus or not at all. 
For reference I have a powerstorm 4d30T.  I have run RH 5.2 on it without an
problems (other than you can only load the black and white X server.)

James

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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
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Sequoia Choice School					
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, furio ercolessi wrote:

> I am trying to install RH 6.0 on an ES40 with Powerstorm 3D30 graphics.
> I do not care about X, but my problem is that the console video
> goes blank (with the LED on the monitor blinking, probably meaning
> no video signal) just after inserting the Ramdisk floppy.
> 
> Before I bother to retry with a serial console, is there any known
> trick to get around this problem?  After all, the system booted
> from the floppy and I read all the initial diagnostics from the
> screen, so a VGA driver for this board must exist!
> 
> thanks
> 
> furio ercolessi
> 
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