Many thanks to;
Gregory Patrick Rudd
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Dr. Tom Blinn
The suggestions were to upgrade the firmware (which I had done) and to
take a closer look at a possible monitor problem, such as the default
scan rate being off.
Apparently the "CIPCA driver not started" message is unrelated to what I
am seeing (original message is below).
Many thanks to the above helpful folks for responding so quickly.
-- tg
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>
> I just installed 5.1 on an Alphaserver 2000 (4/275) and the login window
> does not come up.
>
> Prior to the install I dutifully checked with Compaq to see if 5.1 was
> compatible with this hardware and was told "yes", I then checked my
> somewhat old list re graphics cards and found no evidence that it
> (ATI MACH64-GX rev.1) was no longer supported in v5.
>
> I did a reload with no improvement. The system seems to come up fine but
> then the display is dark after the blue screen portion of the starting
> sequence ends. If I then halt the system, shortly before the console
> prompt appears I see the following;
>
> os_type:UNIX - console CIPCA driver not started.
>
> I suspect this relates to my problem, and no, booting from the generic
> kernel makes no difference. Nothing relevant in the logs that I saw.
>
> Any thoughts on what might be the problem? I will summarize.
>
>
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 16 2000 - 23:51:51 NZDT