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From: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Help with A/UX 1.1 on 3rd Party video
Keywords: A/UX 1.1 X11R4 3rd Party Drives
Message-ID: <2355@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 15:58:36 GMT
References: <167@cis9.INGR.COM> <8713@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <8713@odin.corp.sgi.com> howards@pinball.wpd.sgi.com (Currently Mr. Inst) writes:

>Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here:
>(and none of that "you're running A/UX" crap...)
>Video: SuperMac Spectrum Series II/19" GS Monitor
>       RasterOps 364 / Apple 13" Color Monitor

>It builds the kernel, but when I try and reboot it up, it gets as far
>as resetting the monitors and just goes off to east-hyperspace.  I can
>run in circles and scream and shout but I'd much rather have a working
>SLIP kernel. Any ideas? (I'd like to solve this mystery before I go 2.0)

Sounds similar to the "Big Screen Disease" which plagued our
IIcx/two page display machines for a while.  When the screen
blinked you got a blown up version of the Sash screen instead
of the console and the machine hung.  This only happened when
the screen was set to other than 1 bit mode.  The eventual
work around was an INIT to reset the screen mode.

The can't find device driver warnings can be ignored, the
kernel doesn't have to know about videocards.

So try changing the state of your videocards and running Sash
again.


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