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SubjectRe: [2.1.122] hosed on Alpha?
Yup...  Well TGA loads for me, but the kernel hangs shortly there after...
2.1.115 is the most recent that I can get to even boot... I can't get ipx
to load... I'm using a Multia

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, B. James Phillippe wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been having problems booting the 2.1.12x series on Avanti
> AlphaStation using SRM. I am building with TGA framebuffer support, using
> the egcs-1.1 release. Immediately as the kernel boots, the display is
> trashed** and then unit is hung solidly (no keyboard LEDs, etc). I will
> try with serial console this weekend to see what the last message output
> is. Just wondering though if anyone has seen this problem, or if perhaps
> it is something unique to my setup. My adapter is DEC 21030 ZLXp-E2.
>
> ** Description of "trashed" :) The display looks like a driving sleet,
> frozen in time. I imagine the white "driving sleet" is characters at a
> hard slant and jumbled. It is reminiscent of overtuning the vertical sync
> on my old fixed-freq Sun monitor.
>
> thanks,
> -bp
> --
> B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org>
> Linux Software Engineer, WGTI.
> http://earth.terran.org/~bryan
>
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