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i'd suspect the portclock.c problem, not the hardware,
and not the graphics adapter.
i've sent him a copy of the fixed portclock.c that might help.


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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:51:41 -0700

Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997 wrote:
> Could it be possibe that the system hangs upon rebootin the cpu server
> after setup becasue of the modified vgadb we made.  It was copied onto the
> hard drive, and inclded in the compile of the kernel.  Could it be the
> vgamcah64xx
> Any help is appreciated

unlikely, though i typically don't run rio on my cpuservers.

it sounds to me like there is something more fundamental wrong with
your cpuserver.  another thing to try is some other hardware, just
to compare.

hang in there!

--eric
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