From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:17:55 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:23570 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:17:38 -0800 Received: from nodin.corp.sgi.com (nodin.corp.sgi.com [192.26.51.193]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id IAA09895; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:12:54 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by nodin.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id IAA79910; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id IAA83565 for linux-list; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:08:58 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id IAA84817 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:08:56 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adisaacs@mr-happy.com) Received: from brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (brainguy.tc.mtu.edu [141.219.5.85]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id IAA01471 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:08:55 -0800 (PST) mail_from (adisaacs@mr-happy.com) Received: from crow.mr-happy.com (crow.mr-happy.com [172.19.3.81]) by brainguy.tc.mtu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01478F3C5 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:08:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by crow.mr-happy.com (Postfix, from userid 22448) id D8D9FDF30; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:08:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:08:52 -0500 From: Andy Isaacson To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux on SGI 540 Message-ID: <20000331110852.A5489@mr-happy.com> References: <38E4B368.1A4704B2@rl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <38E4B368.1A4704B2@rl.ac.uk>; from C.Krapichler@rl.ac.uk on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:17:12PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 48 01 21 E2 D4 E4 68 D1 B8 DF 39 B2 AF A3 16 B9 X-PGP-Key-URL: http://web.mr-happy.com/~adisaacs/pgp.txt Sender: owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linuxmips-outgoing On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:17:12PM +0100, Christian Krapichler wrote: > I tried to install Linux on our SGI 540, using the 28jul... kernel patch > from a SGI web page. It went well and boots until the point where I > should see the login screen - but all I get is a "noise" pattern. I am > quite new to Linux, but it sounds like the XF86Config is not right. Does > anyone have a XF86Config for a 21'' Monitor (GDM-5021-PT)? Any help and > suggestions welcome! Sounds like you've specified too much memory. Try adding "mem=256M" to the "loader options" box in the ARC firmware. You might find some help on my VisWS web pages: http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~adi/visws/ -andy -- Andy Isaacson http://web.mr-happy.com/~adisaacs/ Fight Spam, join CAUCE: adi@acm.org adisaacs@mr-happy.com isaacson@cs.umn.edu www.cauce.org