VGA driver ????

From: Mohan Kannapareddy <mkannapa_at_ford.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:04:52 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings Managers,
        I have a small problem with a kernel configuration issue
        which I hope you could shed some light on.

        We have a Alphaserver Model 2100 4/200 and I upgraded the
        firmware so that I could install DU V4.0. Now everything
        went fine during the installation. Now at the point where it
        installations finishes and asks to reboot the system, after the
        reboot, I was asked a strange question which I was not asked
        during my upgrade of another alphaserver 2100 4/200 system.
        Sepcifcally:

        "This system requires a driver for its graphics caed."

        "Enter the device where the kit can be found (e.g. rz4c) or
        <return> to cancel:"

        At this point I looked around for any kind of graphics driver
        and I did NOT have any, so pressed return and next thing I know
         it configures itself as a "generic VGA driver" and my CDE environ-
        ment is quite crappy actually (all faded windows).

        I dug around to find any info. on the card, and I found a booklet
        about ATI Mach64-GX vga graphics card,with two diskettes in it.
        I think one of them is for NT and the other for maybe UNIX? I could
        not mount either of the diskettes. So I am now totally confused.

        . My understanding was the Kernel should have automatically detected
          the driver and loaded it?
        
        . IF one of the diskettes is indeed the driver how do I load it?

        Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.

        Thanks in advance,
        cheers
        Mohan
Received on Tue Sep 10 1996 - 01:04:10 NZST

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