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- From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox)
- Subject: Not Linux trouble, particularly, but ET-4000...
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:40:44 GMT
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- My problem isn't exactly a Linux one, but it's one encountered
- as a result of certain hardware changes I've been making to make Linux
- happy. I'd been running a Trident based VGA card, but since Linux seems
- to annoyed by it - or rather, X under Linux is annoyed - I got an
- ET-4000 Hi-color based card the otehr day. HOWEVER, it won't go. It
- seems to work in other machines, but not mine. I pulled all cards but
- the serial card and the drive controller - first I was using my SCSI
- controller but then I replaced it with an ESDI to run the drive Linux is
- on - and the machine won't boot.
- It's a generic 386-25 motherboard w/ 8Mb RAM and AMI BIOS. With
- the ET4000 card in it fires up, reports 1Mb VRAM, does a RAM check, and
- then just sits there, not even getting to the next thing where AMI BIOS
- puts up that table telling you what's in the machine. I have turned off
- all BIOS shadows and oddities, pulled the etehrnet card and the CDROM
- controller, and tried several drive controllers. I can't imagine how it
- could possibly be conflicting with the ohnly remianing thing, the IO
- card. There is a setting on the video card to tell it not to use or to
- use IRQ 2 - weird to me, but it's there - and I've tried itboth ways.
- Any ideas?
-
- Chris
-
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- ---------- If you cut here you'd probably ruin your monitor -------------
- cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu Christopher A. Cox
- cac@itchy.geog.albany.edu I think, therefore
- cc8034@eve.albany.edu am confused.
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