On 8 Dec 2000, Gustaf Erikson wrote: > Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What type of graphics card is in this machine? The first kernel might not > > have hung, but rather was booting nicely but you couldn't see it's output > > doe to the fact you didn't have TGA frame buffer support installed in the > > kernel. > > > > I would guess the debian one failed as debian has changed the default root > > flags for that kernel (Chris ?) that's a guess. > > > > --rdp > > > > I have a ZLXp-E3, 24 planes, 16MB memory.
Yup, that's a TGA card. > I saw the framebuffer option, but left it alone -- I thought that VGA > was "standard". However, I know see that one should > > Say Y here and to the driver for your graphics board below if you > are compiling a kernel for a non-x86 architecture. Well, sort of.....if you don't have a standard PC VGA card present. > according to the help in "config". > > I have a boot floppy for the old kernel, so I'll try again... > > Thanks. --rdp -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
