Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:48 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dan Williams <dan@bigw.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox Mystique in 1000A Message-ID: <20030423062648.GA7887@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <5A28E196-7532-11D7-BB82-0030657D1C94@bigw.org> References: <20030422091813.J63060-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <5A28E196-7532-11D7-BB82-0030657D1C94@bigw.org>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:21:55PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Hi, > > In my AS 1000A 5/400, I've put a Matrox Mystiqe with 4MB of VRAM. Its > got the 1064SG chip, which is supported by X11 and the mga accelerated > driver. However, XFree86 under both 1024x768x16 and 800x600x16, I get > _bad_ graphics corruption, consisting of vertical yellow lines down the > screen in all windows and graphics elements. Of note is that this card > is from a PC. Is there anything I can do about this? Is it something > Alpha or bus speed related? Should I try another slot? Its in the > slot the original card was in... > > I had tried to run X with the supplied 1MB Number Nine Trio64+ card, > but that ended in failure as the machine never actually brought up the > display in graphics mode (still was in text mode with gibberish) and > whenever I pressed Ctrl+ALT+Backspace to exit the X server, the machine > paniced with a "sense code 0x8e <something>" error. > > I happen to have a Dell card, but its also a Trio64+ and I'm not sure > it will work well. What video cards have people gotten to run perfectly > find in their AlphaServers? Andrew (gallatin@) has reported success with Matrox Millenium cards. I think it is safe to conclude XFree is still very much x86/PC centric and that does not help :-/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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