Greetings, DU-gurus. I've been tasked with taking a Trident VGA card
removed from some unknown system and making it work in an Alpha 400 4/233,
running DU 4.0b. I'm not much of a PC person, and not used to installing
miscellaneous cards without docs, so please bear with me here.
The card is, I believe, an ISA card, and I installed it in the topmost of
the 3 single ISA slots (not in the dual PCI/ISA slot) in the system, and
attached a monitor. The monitor comes up, and the boot process displays,
up to a point when it is configuring devices fairly far along in the boot,
at which point I get:
configure_console: unable to install generic console. attempting to switch
to serial console.
I attached the old serial terminal, and boot completes there. I am assuming
the card is compatible because it does begin to display, but I'm guessing I
need to reconfigure the kernel to know about this device, whatever it
may be. Questions:
1. Do I have to use ISACFG to tell the system about the card? If so,
how do I know what info to give it?
2. What kernel option do I have to add? And how are the ISA slots
numbered, i.e. what number is the top slot?
Many huge TIA to anyone who can help!!
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Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
(315) 453-2912 x335
Received on Thu Jul 31 1997 - 20:40:13 NZST