Re: Alpha Core 3 on XP 1000/Glint driver?

[Sergey Tikhonov <tsv@xxxxxxxx>]

Jon_norstog wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:35 +0100, Balint Cristian wrote:
>  
>
> > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:21, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Sergey & Cristian,
> > >
> > > thanks for the hints.  I have a bunch of CD drives, including SCSI.  Same
> > > thing happened way back, installing RH 7.1 from factory stamped CDs.
> > >
> > > An 8X Cd  drive did the job that time.  I'll try some of those tricks.
> > >      
> > Personaly i bought for ~30USD an old caddysh plextor and an old 4x writer 
> > scsi-matsushita unit. 
> > Those never failed anymore, indeed those are _really_ good quality units !
> >
> >  My PWS Miata camed equiped with lite-on IDE wich from my experience is a sucky sh*t, even
> > if its brand new ...
> >
> > /cristian
> >
> >    
> To the list:
>
> Text install failed in the same way as graphic.  I did then change to my
> old Sony 8x CDrom drive and got a clean graphical install, first time.
> I wasn't really able to see what I got with the default installs - the
> Xserver wouldn't load, apparently the install did not pick up the Glint
> driver for my 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 card.
>
> I'll either swap out for a Radeon or muck around and see if the driver
> is in there, or maybe copy it over from my AC2 install on the same
> machine.  
>  
The xorg-glint driver is on CDs. Like I said before, I was expecting the 
detection of video card and installing the proper xorg driver to be arch 
independent. I was wrong. Unfortunatelly, the installer itself is hard 
to debug (or I didn't understand how to do it in easier way) so I left 
this part to manual installtion.

> My thought is that CD drives, especially IDE or ATAPI are pretty
> marginal when it comes to transferring large amounts of data error free.
> Don't feel too bad, Sergei & guys, your disks are still as good as the
> official Red Hat 7.1 boxed set. 
>
> My choice would be something like a Pioneer/Siemens magneto-optical
> drive on a wide ultra 80 SCSI bus. Those things are scarce and costly,
> though.  The cartridges alone are $150 each.  But they are accurate.
>
> Once I get a working Xserver, I may try to download stuff via YUM.  Over
> a dial-up connection.
>  
You could setup local yum repository and there will be no need to 
download (except for new updated pacckages).

> Thanks for all you work, guys!
>  
Thank you,

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Sergey Tikhonov

Head, R&D department
Solvo Ltd.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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