From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 30 10: 7:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from poptart.bithose.com (poptart.bithose.com [208.171.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7318D37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakari@bithose.com) Received: from localhost (jakari@localhost) by poptart.bithose.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6UH6TZ58761; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:06:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poptart.bithose.com: jakari owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:06:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari To: Mike Nichols Cc: Subject: Re: Internal console doesn't work with SRM/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > running on. As long as I use the serial console, everything works > beautifully. But I can't for the life of me get the internal console to > work with SRM and/or FreeBSD! If I switch to the ARC console ("set os_type Who wants to bet this is the same TGA (21030) issue I had last week with my Alphastation 200? Check your video card. It's probably a 21030-based card. Mine has four dipswitches on it. Try flipping one or more of them- these select the console video mode. The default is (I think) 1280x1024 at some weird vertical rate. Reset and you should see the SRM come up if the mode is something your monitor can support. I don't have a table of these swicth settings nor can I find one on line, but I have mine in a usable 1024x768 mode. However.. this won't help as far as FreeBSD is concerned. No console support for the TGA cards. The kernel will start, but the installer hangs because it doesn't have a driver for the video. I found that it all worked in serial console as well. Replacing the video card with a ATI Mach64 worked to get it fully functional with local KB+graphics. A TGA driver is on its way. #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f $zig; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message