From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 12 23:16:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mta07.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta07.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128CF37B405 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta07.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020213071646.RBQL23669.mta07.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:16:46 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213181352.01ce6770@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:16:44 +1100 To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au From: Rob B Subject: Re: Alpha 500au Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020213165658.B1022-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 17:31 13/02/2002, Wilkinson,Alex sent this up the stick: >Howdy crew, > >I am about to install FreeBSD 4.5 on an Alpha 500au. > >I am just wondering if anyone knows if I could put a Matrox >Dual Headed video card in an Alpha 500au ? > >It does not have a AGP slot so I'm hoping Matrox make a PCI >Dual Headed Video cards. > >Does anyone know if an Alpha 500au PCI Bus is a i386 Industry >Standard ? First up, make sure you have the latest SRM from ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/readmes/digitalpw.html You'll have a hard time finding a Dual-headed Matrox card for a PCI bus, I have a PWS 500au as well, and I have a Matrox Millenium II which works fine. Some people have reported success with the Voodoo3, Voodoo5 and ATI Radeon cards. These were under Linux, and I have no idea if FreeBSD should be any different. Cheers, Rob -- Though it all looks different now, I know it's still the same... [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 1020 of a collection of 1204 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message