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08-28-2010

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I have forgotten pretty much everything I ever knew about this system (including the password, alas, any clues about what to do about that?), since it's been in a closet since the last time it was booted 6-7 years ago.

How do I boot into single user mode, and what do I do once I get there? Right now with the MX703 it chugs through the boot dialog, gets to the login prompt, and then the screen goes black except for the "PC Video resolution setting is out of range. Change setting to recommended resolution 1024x768 @85 Hz" message.

I tried pausing the boot dialog with the pause key to see if I could see the graphics info going by, but the key seemed to have no effect, so although I know it sees the keyboard (it complained before it was plugged in) I don't know if it's actually responding to keys. This may not be the keyboard it came with (I used one monitor and one keyboard for the Alpha and a bunch of old Pavilions (now recycled) that ran Windows 95, 98, and I may have swapped keyboards for some reason while the Alpha was in the closet), but if so I probably have that keyboard in one of the parts boxes.

(All this chaos is because I'm getting rid of/organizing a lot of computer stuff, but I do want to keep the Alpha.)

I did see on the web that the Alpha came with the PowerStorm, but in my heap of stuff there is a manual for the PBXGB-AA/CA PCI Graphics Option. Whether it is for this system or one of the old Pavilions, I dunno, but I am suspecting it is for this system. I found the bill of sale for the system, but it says zip about the video. Of course, I could always open the Alpha up, sigh.

My original goal was to get rid of the giant MX703 display and replace it with a flat one, but I wanted to test first to be sure the Alpha was still working. So getting a new flat display that would work with the Alpha is the most desirable solution. Also being able to log in :-)

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I did some more looking on the web, and apparently the PBXGB-AA/CA manual is for the PowerStorm 3D30/PowerStorm 4D20. So what I have in the Alpha, I dunno. I also found a benchmark test that was for a different Alpha but with a PowerStorm 3D10 and a display with a resolution of 1280x1024 and 72 Hz.

The resolutions/Hz list in the PBXGB-AA/CA manual and the list for the MX703 display are not disjoint.although the manual does not list the one the display says it wants. I wonder if I take the card out of the Alpha, set the switch as the PBXGB-AA/CA manual says, hoping this works for the PowerStorm 3D10 if that's what it is and if it even has a switch, if the display will be happy with that even though it isn't the "1024x768 @85 Hz" it's asking for.

The chances I will break something if I open up the box are about 90%.

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GLTRON(6)							   Games Manual 							 GLTRON(6)

NAME

       gltron - a tron-like 3D lightcycle game

SYNOPSIS

       gltron [[-FftwbghcCsk1234simo]

DESCRIPTION

       glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective 3D acceleration is recommended.

       More information can be found at the gltron web site http://www.gltron.org/

PROBLEMS

       If the game refuses to start up, check your hardware settings and that the necessary libraries are installed.

       If the options are messed up, remove ~/.gltronrc and try again.

       Anything else check TODO, known bugs on the website, and lastly ask in #gltron on irc.freenode.net.

OPTIONS

       Valid command line options:

       -O     enable software optimizations, useful if your card doesn't have OpenGL acceleration. For best results combine with -t and -1.

       -f     fast finish after human has crashed

       -F     don't display FPS counter

       -t     don't display floor texture, use lines instead (huge speed gain)

       -w     don't display walls (speed gain)

       -x     don't show crash texture (speed gain)

       -g     don't show glows (small speed gain)

       -c     don't show ai status

       -C     show ai status (default: on)

       -1     set resolution to 320x240

       -2     set resolution to 640x480 (default)

       -3     set resolution to 800x600

       -4     set resolution to 1024x768

       -s     don't play sound

       -h     help

AUTHOR

       Updated with PROBLEMS section by Countersync <countersync@hotmail.com> before submission to upstream source.

       This  manual  page  was	 written   by  Jeronimo  Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the information in the package by Raphael
       Bossek, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								    2001-06-10								 GLTRON(6)