Bug 18664

TGA video is not supported for the console. Try a simple PCI VGA card or
a
serial console and check what happens.

Wilko

>TGA video is not supported for the console. Try a simple PCI VGA card or
>a
>serial console and check what happens.

Oddness. It's the standard video card in the Alphaserver 400 as
shipped, as I recall. Probably my fault for assuming that since it
was listed as supported, that I didn't have to check each component
individually against the list, too. Moral: RTFM.. :)

I have found an old ET4000, and some fairly common cirrus logic card,
I just hope that they are members of that subset of devices which work
with the alpha.

Thanks for the help, and the fast response! I will tinker tonight, and see 
if I can't get a little further.

Regards,

-a-

(apologies for the crappy wrapping/formatting. For various reasons,
I must use hotmail for now!)



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Comment 3 wilko 2000-05-19 18:02:07 UTC

FWIW: I have used an ISA ET4000 succesfully on an Alpha. I *think* I
also
had a Cirrus Logic working sometime ago. Other cards that are generally
known to work are the S3 cards.

Wilko

Comment 4 wilko 2000-05-22 18:51:26 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

PR submitter acknowledged that using the unsupported TGA 
as the console caused the problem. Morale: read alpha/HARDWARE.TXT 
carefully ;-) 
Wilko