In article <1992Aug24.204326.8604@julian.uwo.ca> klode@syslab.csd.uwo.ca (Claude Morin) writes:
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>In article <Aug.19.22.38.33.1992.8120@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>>rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs) writes:
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>>>Hi Linux'ers:
>>
>>>Any time I try to initialize, the screen goes dead and a terminal on a serial
>>>port is the only feedback I've been able to get aside from capture files. 
>
>I've had the same problem with MGR and X11.  Configuring either one is
>incredibly frustrating because of the need to capture output blindly, then
>reboot if things go wrong.  I got so sick of this a few months ago that
>I wrote the following (tiny) script.

As I said this wasn't a problem, as I had a pc beside to use as an ASCII
terminal, but I had no idea where to go from the error messages.
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>BTW, I would appreciate it if someone would post at least one followup to this
>article, since I'm not sure my postings are making it out into the world.
>
I found the problem, which was in fact the Modes line missing or commented
out....in any case, the clocks and modes could not talk.  All fixed :-)

        Thanks, Richard
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>Claude Morin
>(that's "klode", NOT "clod"...French :-)
>London, Ontario, Canada

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