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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:28:35 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, "bob@Moronco.net" <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net>, "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
Message-ID:  <20020211142834.A8930@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202110655520.26663-100000@saruman.xwin.net>; from dp@penix.org on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:08:31AM -0600
References:  <15462.61133.279002.797760@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202110655520.26663-100000@saruman.xwin.net>

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:08:31AM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> >
> > You're using a TGA.  A TGA card is not supported.  Use a serial
> > console or replace the TGA card with any $5 used PCI VGA card you have
> > laying around.
> 
> 	I think you may be spiking the ball a bit with "any 5$ used PCI
> VGA card". I have tried numerous cards including some ATI's and 3dfx that
> seem to shit the bed when plugged into this machine.
> 
> 	BTW, these machines typically shipped with S3 PCI VGA did they
> not?

S3 tends to work, as doe Number Nine, ELSA Gloria, Matrox Millenium,
even an old Orcide Prodesigner (ISA) worked for me on Alpha.

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|   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte		Arnhem, the Netherlands

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