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- From: skenny@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Stephen Kenny)
- Subject: Graphics Board Woes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.174451.29724@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:44:51 GMT
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- We're having a bad time trying to get HX graphics boards working with
- our DECstation 5000/120 machines (The monitors are Model VR319 type).
- We've suffered with the MX boards for ages, and after a very long
- wait got word that DEC had replacement HX boards for our four 5000s.
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- We run Ultrix V4.2 on the machines. The X servers available in /usr/bin are:
- Xtm, Xtm2d and Xws (for PXG, PX and MX & CX boards respectively, I
- understand).
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- When the new board is put in, we get a message about PMAGB-BA that
- starts with a '?'. This doesn't look good for starters, particularaly as DEC
- support were talking about a PMAGB-BB on the phone. Vmunix is then loaded,
- the "starting at 0x80030000" message is printed, and the console hangs.
- One interpretation is that the kernel hasn't got support for the new
- board built into it. I built a kernel with the GENERIC config file and
- booted with it, but the same thing happened again.
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- There are so many questions:
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- (1) Do I have the right board ? Written on the board itself is "PMAGB-B"
- (there is no letter after the final "B").
- (2) Is it going to work with Ultrix V4.2 (or do I have to upgrade first ?
- For filesystem reasons (AFS in fact), we haven't upgraded to 4.3. Maybe
- we need 4.2A ?)
- (3) Have I even got the X server binary that is appropriate for this board ?
- (I fear not).
- (4) What kernel configuration options do I need for the new board ?
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- If anyone can set me straight on this, I'd be most grateful.
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- Thanks a lot.
- Stephen
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- Stephen Kenny +---------------------+
- System Manager, Distributed Systems Group * skenny@cs.tcd.ie *
- Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College * +353 1 702 1222 *
- Dublin 2, Ireland +---------------------+
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