On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:03:18PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > First off my hardware is an AS1000A 4/266 128M, DE500-BA, Mylex > DAC960PL, S3/Virge, obviously I'm using the S3 instead of the > onboard EISA video, I can switch back if it'll help anything.
No need. > My main question is, is there a way to change the resolution of the > console? I know on x86 you can use the vesafb and vga= kernel > parameter to do this but havn't found a way on Alpha. I believe this can be done, but have never done it myself. I have used the FB code in the kernel on various controllers, TGA and Matrox at least, but not S3/ViRGE (I've no card). There were some problems I had to track down in those drivers' code, so it's quite possible the same would be true of any others. > Secondly, recently ARC has stopped loading for me, which isn't a > real problem since I boot from SRM, but I can't run the ECU or RCU > from SRM or atleast I don't know how. If I type 'arc' from SRM it > says it's loading ARC from firmware then hangs before it does the > driver initialization. I do have he latest SRM and ARC available. And you need ECU/RCU for what, configuring the DAC? That would be a problem; otherwise you'd only need ECU if you were mucking about with EISA cards, IIRC. Did ARC stop working when you added the ViRGE, or any other non-standard hardware (hoping it's that simple :-)? --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
