Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:28:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Roberto de Iriarte <roberto@spock.cl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox Mystique in 1000A Message-ID: <20030423062805.GB7887@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3EA5E6F9.6040205@spock.cl> References: <5A28E196-7532-11D7-BB82-0030657D1C94@bigw.org> <3EA5E6F9.6040205@spock.cl>
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:06:01AM +0000, Roberto de Iriarte wrote: > 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... > > Yes, you should, your system has a pci<->pci bridge. The 64 bit slot(s), > if availible, are in front of the bridge. Try that. Otherwise (I'm AS1000A does not have 64 bit PCI slots. The topmost 3 are the primary PCI bus, there is a silkscreen text on the mainboard indicating which are primary and which are secondary slots. Worth trying.. > sorry, i do not own an AS1000A, so i cannot tell you what slot to use) > look in the system documentation. PCI Video cards should not be > installed behind the bridge for that very reason (I remember seeing the > very same problem under NT on my AS2100A wth a Matrox). -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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