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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:55:21 +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:  <20010822225521.A33241@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <01082209511502.47205@snoopy>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:51:15AM -0700
References:  <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy> <01082209254200.47205@snoopy> <15235.57688.52231.201459@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <01082209511502.47205@snoopy>

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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.

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