From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 23:26:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BDB37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF4043FBF for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3N6Qmtv007936; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3N6Qm8t007931; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:26:48 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Dan Williams Message-ID: <20030423062648.GA7887@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030422091813.J63060-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <5A28E196-7532-11D7-BB82-0030657D1C94@bigw.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5A28E196-7532-11D7-BB82-0030657D1C94@bigw.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox Mystique in 1000A X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:26:54 -0000 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 " 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