Subject: Re: Wallstreet video woes
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 10:08:47 MST
Can't help you with video, but with bootx you need to wipe out the boot
partition (or at least its contents) and zap your PRAM (typically best to
hold down keys for at least two restart boings).
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:48:18 -0600
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Wallstreet video woes
>
> I got two replies -- one correcting me, and letting me know that my
> 14.1" screen was a bona fide normal option for a Wallstreet, and the
> other suggesting I use
> video=atyfb:vmode:14
> as my option.
>
> However, I'm still getting the same quartered-screen results.
>
> How should the "force video settings" and "No video driver" boxes be
> checked? I"m assuming yes and no respectively, but I tried various
> combinations.
>
> Anyway, the terminal resolution when the screen comes up needs to be
> 1024x768. Could anyone tell me how to get there from here?
>
>
> As a side question, I accidently installed BootX on a machine (I was
> hoping to install to a network attached machine rather than my main
> machine). How do I get rid of it? I trashed all the files I could
> find, but the BootX window still pops up when I boot.
>
> At 2:54 PM -0600 11/9/01, Bryan Walls wrote:
>> I upgrades the kernel on my Wallstreet, and forgot to write down all
>> the stuff in BootX before creaming it.
>>
>> I figured out where my boot drive is, but don't remember the video
>> workarounds. So I'm getting one small usable screen in slightly more
>> than the top quarter of my screen, and repeats in the rest. Anyone
>> know the proper video setting?
>>
>> I think I have a transitional Wallstreet -- with the big screen like
>> a Lombard.
>> --
>> Bryan Walls My words are not NASA policy.
>> Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov (256)544-3311voice,544-7128fax
>> http://science.nasa.gov http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov
>> http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
>
>
> --
> Bryan Walls My words are not NASA policy.
> Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov (256)544-3311voice,544-7128fax
> http://science.nasa.gov http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
>
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