Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:39:05 +0000 From: "Mike Nichols" <nicholsmi@hotmail.com> To: jakari@bithose.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal console doesn't work with SRM/FreeBSD Message-ID: <F169d1ZoRslYBR4koi40000915a@hotmail.com>
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> > 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.
OK. You're right on about the dip switches. Flipping any one of them will
get the SRM console on the monitor. However, you aren't exactly right about
how it won't work with FreeBSD. In my case, I already had a system
installed, so it might well be hanging with the installer. While in the
loader, everything is peachy perfect. But beyond that isn't so great. I
can see the boot message, but getty won't come up on it, and I think it's
lost keyboard access (DDB hotkey doesn't work). Moreover, sc0 (syscons) is
still not getting detected, which would explain all the symptoms (no pcvt,
either, as far as I can tell). Any further clues?
Also, did you mean that it won't work with console, or with the X Window
System? I'm more interested in just a text-based console for now.
>A TGA driver is on its way.
You're writing a TGA driver? Excellent!
Thanks for the insight.
Mike Nichols
P.S. Sorry if this mailer (if you can call it that) defaces the message.
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