I have a 20" fixed-freq monitor that uses a special Permedia2 video card. It works fine except for some DOS games that like > 640x480 resolution (like Harpoon 2 -- it doesn't _require_ higher res, but it's a whole _lot_ nicer with it).
The Debian 2.2 boot disk apparently displays some graphic of a penguin when it starts up the kernel (so I've been told). All I know is that my monitor goes _dead_ at that point, as dead as if I pulled the cable from the video card. There's disk activity afterwards, and if I put in the root disk after it stops, and press <ENTER>, it appears to load it into RAM. Still no display though, which makes further progress pretty much impossible. Is there any way to turn off this graphic so I can install 2.2? I can open up my machine and remove the PCI video card and disconnect the monitor, borrow a 15" monitor and hook it up to the motherboard's video and install it that way, but if there's a switch to pass to turn off the graphic, I'd much rather do that. I really hope that answer's not in the release or install notes or I'm going to feel really dumb because I've gone over them a couple of time now without seeing any mention of this... The 2.1 disks work on my machine, but absolutely refuse to recognize my UDMA controller and the hard drive on it that I want to put Linux on. I pass the proper parameters (linux ide2=0xfca8,0xfcba ide3=0xfcb0,0xfcbe) and I can see that the kernel finds the drive just fine as it boots (the partition is type Linux and formatted ext2fs). The install program does _not_ see that drive at all, though. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated! Larry
