Once again my thanks go out to the list. Basically my problem was I had
upgraded a machine and didn't have the graphics drivers for my card. When
I arrived at work today my mailbox was surprisingly well filled with people
offering solutions. The general consensus was to install the Open3D kit
for the PowerStorm_4DxxT subset from the second Associated Product CD.
I did this and everything worked (yay!) :)
Incidently there were two other problems that I came across before this
would work that I'll mention here in case anyone is interested. Firstly
when I shut down the machine today, swapped hard drives and powered it back
up for some reason it went into the AlphaBIOS and not the SRM
console. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth before I discovered
you can tell the system to start with the console by entering the advanced
setup of AlphaBIOS and choosing "digital unix" as the console type. Why
did it go into the BIOS? I have no idea.
The second interesting thing I found was when I went to install the Open3D
package from teh CD I tried using the nice dusetup script which calls
Netscape and lets you do everything through a web broswer. Because my
graphics card wasn't recognised when it tried to start Netscape it gave a
quick scroll of errors, then dumped the core. I found that "netscape" is
actually just a script which calls "real-netscape" the binary. So into
that I added the parameter -mono to tell Netscape startup in mono mode. It
looked pretty bad, gave numerous X errors about unable to do certain
things, but worked ok.
Now I've got familiar with the setld command so I could probably bypass
that if I needed to do it again.
Thanks to all those who responded.
Cheers,
Ryan.
Greetings all, I've got a little problem here that has me
stumped. We have a 500Au machine which was Tru64 4.0C. That was having
some problems so we decided to upgrade it. I went through all the
documentation, discovered I couldn't upgrade direct to 5.1 so attempted to
upgrade to 4.0E. During the process I discovered the /usr partition had
various media errors (I suspect this was causing the problems in the first
place) so I did some more rummaging around and found a new hard disk.
I put that in, installed 5.1 and there was much rejoicing. Then I
tried getting into it and found that the OS only finds a VGA
640*480*16colour graphics adaptor. This is a new one on me, all the other
installations I've done the graphics card is discovered and configured
automatically.
I've been looking for drivers and I may have found the right ones
(apparently they're the same ones as another system that is working) but I
have no idea how to install them. All I have is a tar file filled with
files called such things as O3DDWSBASE480 and the like.
The graphics card itself is a huge Integraph thing, model
"PBPSPBXGI" trade name: "PBXGI" with a cirrus logic card piggy backed onto it.
Any suggestions from the gurus?
Cheers,
Ryan.
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Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 08:15:34 NZDT