Alpha woes

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian Conway)]

I plugged a Matrox Millennium II card into the box (a tough squeeze) and
it worked beautifically.  I had to use the kernel without a frame buffer
device enabled, of course.  The SVGA server even works quite nicely
compared to the 8-bit TGA.  My only concern now is if I choose to do a new
install at some point.  If the TGA device is already compiled into the
kernel and not as a module, it would be impossible for me to recover,
remotely or locally to recompile (among other things, no remote root
login after install and no console to work with).  Any ideas if the Redhat
install is set up in such a way that I can do an install with a non-TGA
video card?  I dunno if anyone has tried.

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net


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