Subject: Re: A7000+ install problems
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: James Woodcock <james_woodcock@yahoo.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/26/2000 17:01:52
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] James Woodcock wrote:
>
> > --- Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
> > >
> > > Hmm, have you tried changing the screen res in the
> > > boot loader? and setting
> > > the amount of memory for video to something?
> >
> > Thanks for that. I set the video mem to 1 meg
> > and it works happy as larry. I've got an
> > installed system without X so that's something
> > to work on.
>
> Is the A7000 special with respect to needing the correct amount
> of video RAM set in the bootloader? Does anyone know how to probe
> that?
I just guessed at the amount. I just randomly chose 1024K. Later on I
also tried 2048K and that worked as well. So, I don't think it matters that
much. I'm not using X yet, it might be more important for that.
James
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