NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/16963

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Subject: Loading Linux
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Date: 16 Nov 92 18:46:03 GMT
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I recently downloaded the boot and root images from tsx-11, rawrote them
onto high-density floppies and tried to boot Linux on my PC.  The PC
boots, I get a 'Loading...' message, and then the screen goes blank.  If
I wait till the disk stops rotating and hit <enter>, the drive will
start moving again, as if there was a prompt on the screen, but the
graphics card is not displaying anything.
    The system I am using is a 386DX-40 from Quantex Microsystems.
The CPU is the AMD 40MHz 386DX chip.  The only non-standard pience of
hardware I have is that the SVGA card is based on the NCR 77C22 (think
that's right) chip.
    So, does anyone else have a graphics card based on this chip, or
does anyone have suggestions about what I may be doing wrong?  The NCR
card is usable as a vga card with no special drivers under MS-DOS, but I
still have to suspect the card as being the problem.
    Also, I don't suppose that anyone is working on a driver for X
for that card are they?  I'm finding that I should probably have paid
extra to get one of the other cards Quantex offered instead of just get-
ting the 'default' one.
    Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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AIX Development       |   Greatest of Warriors, lay wretched and sniveling
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