From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 25 7:39:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD8515356 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA12541; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:39:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA00743; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:39:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:39:11 -0400 (EDT) To: Jorgen Pehrson Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AS 400 install problem In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14275.65356.102536.557186@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jorgen Pehrson writes: > Hi, > I've tried to install 3.2-RELEASE on an AlphaStation 400/233. But the > keyboard keeps locking up for some reason. I've made the two floppies > containing kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. And the keyboard works all the way up > to the point where the install asks me what terminal capabilities I've > got, by giving me four different choices. > > So I think that maybe the problem is that my graphics card isn't > supported and it tries to talk to a serial console instead. > > It says PBXGA on the board if that's of any help. You have a TGA graphics card, which is currently unsupported. Somebody was working on TGA support but didn't have access to an alpha over the summer. Your best bet would be to put in a VGA compatible graphics card, or install using a serial console. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message