Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 19:22:42 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10 Message-ID: <20010901192242.A25898@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <iss.430a.3b90248d.64c9f.1@mercury.fan.fa.disney.com>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:58:04PM -0700 References: <iss.430a.3b90248d.64c9f.1@mercury.fan.fa.disney.com>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:58:04PM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: I have 5.9 SRM here. FYI: SRM 6.0 is currently not blessed for DS10. Does not make a difference it seems. Wilko > So now I have tried the Matrox Millenium II card and I get the same > results, so I do not believe it is the ATI card's problem but more > with the system itself or the way I have X/kernel configured. > > I did upgrade the SRM to 5.8-10 and it also did not make a difference. > > - JimP > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:44 am, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Jim Pirzyk writes: > > > > Hmmm, Tried that version and it hung on me again (under 4.3-RELEASE) > > > > Are you using the GENERIC kernel? I was not and this is my > > > > next test. I also forgot to mention that I have the ATI xpert 128 > > > > pci card in the system (with 16MB) of ram. I also get a 'beep' right > > > > after I do the 'X -probeonly'. > > > > > > I suspect that its not making it through the BIOS emulator in XFree86 > > > -- ati cards are supposed to be especially bad at this. I've heard > > > that some ATI cards don't even make it through the SRM console bios > > > emulation code & are not usable as console devices. Can you use your > > > graphics head as a console? > > > > > > Can you try a different card? Like a Permedia-2 based card (like the > > > ELSA that DEQ ships w/their workstations) or a Matrox? > > > > I do use the card as a console device. I had picked this card because > > it was listed as a card that worked with the DRI on an alpha system, > > but maybe not with the version of the SRM that I have (I do have > > 5.5 on it). Maybe I should upgrade the SRM on the system. If all > > else fails, I do have a Matrox Millenium II card that I can try out. > > SRM 5.5 is rather old. But Alphas can be picky as far as PCI cards go. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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