Alpha Core 3 on XP 1000/Glint driver?

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jon_norstog wrote:

>On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:35 +0100, Balint Cristian wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:21, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
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>>>Sergey & Cristian,
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>>>thanks for the hints.  I have a bunch of CD drives, including SCSI.  Same
>>>thing happened way back, installing RH 7.1 from factory stamped CDs.
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>>>An 8X Cd  drive did the job that time.  I'll try some of those tricks.
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>> Personaly i bought for ~30USD an old caddysh plextor and an old 4x writer 
>>scsi-matsushita unit. 
>>Those never failed anymore, indeed those are _really_ good quality units !
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>>  My PWS Miata camed equiped with lite-on IDE wich from my experience is a sucky sh*t, even
>>if its brand new ...
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>>/cristian
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>To the list:
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>Text install failed in the same way as graphic.  I did then change to my
>old Sony 8x CDrom drive and got a clean graphical install, first time.
>I wasn't really able to see what I got with the default installs - the
>Xserver wouldn't load, apparently the install did not pick up the Glint
>driver for my 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 card.
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>I'll either swap out for a Radeon or muck around and see if the driver
>is in there, or maybe copy it over from my AC2 install on the same
>machine.  
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The xorg-glint driver is on CDs. Like I said before, I was expecting the 
detection of video card and installing the proper xorg driver to be arch 
independent. I was wrong. Unfortunatelly, the installer itself is hard 
to debug (or I didn't understand how to do it in easier way) so I left 
this part to manual installtion.

>My thought is that CD drives, especially IDE or ATAPI are pretty
>marginal when it comes to transferring large amounts of data error free.
>Don't feel too bad, Sergei & guys, your disks are still as good as the
>official Red Hat 7.1 boxed set. 
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>My choice would be something like a Pioneer/Siemens magneto-optical
>drive on a wide ultra 80 SCSI bus. Those things are scarce and costly,
>though.  The cartridges alone are $150 each.  But they are accurate.
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>Once I get a working Xserver, I may try to download stuff via YUM.  Over
>a dial-up connection.
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You could setup local yum repository and there will be no need to 
download (except for new updated pacckages).

>Thanks for all you work, guys!
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Thank you,

-- 
Sergey Tikhonov

Head, R&D department
Solvo Ltd.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
http://www.solvo.ru
tsv at solvo.ru