On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Greg Siekas wrote:
>
> I recently had trouble rebuilding the kernel on a DEC 2100 4/200. I
> solved this problem but now when I boot up I can't get the DECwindows/Motif
> to come up. So I took the following steps.
>
> I copied /genvmunix to /vmunix and booted the generic kernel.
>
> Now the DECwindows/Motif came up? So then I rebuilt the kernel with
>
> >doconfig
>
> When I rebooted this new kernel the same problem occurred. I only got a
> text/console mode.
>
> I double checked that the console was set to graphics and it was.
> I also checked the version of the SRM firmware and it's higher than the
> version we have on CD.
>
To get the DECwindows/Motif up and running I had to edit
/sys/conf/FOO
I added the line
controller vga0 at * slot ? vector vgaintr
and then rebuilt the kernel with doconfig -c FOO
This somehow fixed the problem.
Thanks to those who replied.
Greg
Greg Siekas
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tulane University
email: siekas_at_mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
url:
http://tatanka.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas
Received on Thu Jun 08 1995 - 21:23:23 NZST