Re: boot failure with RH 7.1 on AS 1200 -- anaconda?

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:16:27PM -0700, Ralph Squillace wrote:
>
> Bingo, Jay. Almost like you know something about it. :-)

Try too much... ;-}

> The card I took out has two very nice IBM chips (one very pretty, green-
> blue one with an offset chip in the middle -- quite nice), and the main
> chip is, lo and behold, Cirrus.

As you say, bingo.

> At this point, the Matrox card is being probed successfully, but I think I
> failed to install the XF86_SVGA stuff originally, because when I probe and
> then try X, I get:
> 
>    Server doesn't exist, can't continue.
> 
> tried to use ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
> 
> I take it this means that I've got to suck these libraries down?

Yup.

> If I'm right, I'll get this working yet. And I've got about 12 other of
> these machines to play with, so I'll try the text install with 7.1 to see
> if that goes better with the powerstorm cards.

I'd do that (text mode with 7.1 and TGA2), because the server does
work with them there (not under 7.0). You do have to add a "BusID"
option into the config file for them, but that's a small price to pay
to get something that works without swapping cards... ;-}

 --Jay++

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