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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:   Re: Graphics card on 433au
Message-ID:  <14837.36344.340675.384466@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241512220.80169-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
References:  <20001023192048.C394@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241512220.80169-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>

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Ralph Schreyer writes:
 > Hello Wilko,
 > 
 > thank you for your answer. We checked alpha/HARDWARE.TXT and tried to
 > install a MACH64 and a Matrox Millenium II graphics card. In both cases
 > the message "illegal device on slot 5" appeared and the SRM console did
 > not start, even if we did 
 > 
 > >>> set pci_device_override -1
 > 
 > The SRM version on our alpha 433au is V6.6-29. Is it simply that these
 > cards just don't work or do we have to do something else?
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > 
 > Ralph.

I think some versions of the console may not support the -1 wildcard.

Try:
>>> set pci_device_override <deviceid><vendorid>

Where <deviceid><vendorid> is the concatonated pci device id and
vendor id in hex without the leading 0x.

Drew


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