Minifridge

[Will L Givens]

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Have you tried swapping out the video card? Some standard cards work for
most Alpha models like the Radeon 7500 PCI. I've seen it do this sort of
thing with my old AlphaPC 164SX. The keyboard was fine but the video card
wasn't initializing.  Will L G

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-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of heviarti at puresimplicity.net
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:40 PM
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: Minifridge

I can type commands, and it'll respond... Show, boot, set, all that. I just
don't think I've fed it the right flag to get it to boot single. It does
boot when I type boot...  Or it did anyway. I don't know how well it's
weathered being powered hard so many times.  I did try setting console
graphics, and I showed console, and it said 'graphics'...  It just didn't
retain it 'til next boot. 

-----Original Message-----

From:  Maurice Hilarius <maurice at harddata.com>
Subj:  Re: Minifridge
Date:  Fri Aug 20, 2010 15:12
Size:  2K
To:  Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>

      On 8/20/2010 3:04 PM, heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:   Well, I do
know a little about SRM, and I've fought with this one some. I can't get it
to maintain the setting for video output. Console is always serial after a
reboot.     This sounds like it is not recognising the keyboard as being
there.
 The way many of these Alpha boxen respond when they see no keyboard is to
switch to serial console mode.
 
   The only model info is 82-PB76B-01  I've had this thing sitting under my
kitchen table for a year because I can't get into it. I tried about six
different possibilities for getting it into single user mode, and then
CTRL-C stopped working to get me into SRM.  So now I don't know how I'm
going to get access to the OS...  -fl s doesn't seem to do it, neither did
-fl single, -fl 1, -fl S, -fl init=1, or -fl init=single.  I have a VT, but
my MMJ cable is no more. It was at my mother's house, and she threw it away
thinking it was an extra phone cord.   One can modify a regular RJ cable end
by filing off the latch/key.
 
 It will then go in the hole.
 
 
  -- 
 With our best regards,
 
 Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772
 11060 - 166 Avenue email:maurice at harddata.com
 Edmonton, AB, Canada  T5X 1Y3 
 
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