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Hi,

        REcently installed Redhat on my AlphaStation 200 4/233 with a ZLX/P-E1
card. Installation was done with a Avanti-s.img, during the initial boot
and so I believe the vmlinux copied to the boot disk should be based on
this.  However the ZLX/p card is not being recognised during the PCI
probe portion of boot ( from both the disk or the floppy ) and so I am
unable to setup XFree86.

        Was I supposed to use the Avanti.img instead ?
        What is the difference between these images , which is for which and
are there any reference to problems where the TGA is not being
recognised ? I have read the FAQs and there is no reference to such a
problem.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers!
g sridhar

The avanti.img and avanti-s.img are kernel images for MILO and SRM,
respectively.  (When you compile a Linux kernel, you must indicate
which firmware you want to use.)  I believe that they have TGA support
compiled in.  If you are booting from SRM, using "avanti-s" was the
right thing to do (per my instructions).

Something you may wish to try:
        - cat /proc/pci to get the base memory address of the card (if
          you're TGA device is console, it had better show up here)
        - use one of the XF86Config files that has been floating
          around here and plug your card's address into the MemBase
          line (should be references on DejaNews)
        - if you're using the DEC TGA X server, snip the appropriate
          portions of the readme

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