From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 24 6:32:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8922C37B4CF for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22345; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9ODVnx11991; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:31:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Ralph Schreyer Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad Subject: Re: Graphics card on 433au In-Reply-To: References: <20001023192048.C394@freebie.demon.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14837.36344.340675.384466@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 Where is the concatonated pci device id and vendor id in hex without the leading 0x. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message