Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:50:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Machine Check when booting dqa0? Message-ID: <20021021204615.P77597-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> In-Reply-To: <20021021180721.GO14571@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Hi guys, Has anyone else had problems getting a video card to work with X in a PC164? I've tried a cirrus logic PCI card, which X didn't even build a module for, and a Matrox Mystique MGA1064SG-based card. The Mystique changes to a video mode, displays some arbitrary graphics lines of different colors and locks the box solid. Any suggestions? Has anyone tested a cheap GeForce2 MX PCI card in their Alpha yet? I know I won't get any hardware acceleration, but lots of video RAM wouldn't be a bad thing. On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:43:31AM -0400, Jameel Akari wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > > > All my drive problems went away when I used a different IDE cable. > > > > *blinks* I've tried at least a half-dozen cables. I haven't used > > a UDMA66 (80-conductor) cable because the CMD controller barely does > > UDMA/33, and I don't think that I need a cable-select cable. Same issue. > > I only get dqa0. If you can find another cable to test a second device > > with, I'd really like to know if it works or not. > > I grabbed another cable. Both hard drives now show up (on the primary cable), but the (secondary master) CD-ROM doesn't show up in the SRM console. FreeBSD sees the CD-ROM just fine, however. > > > The IDE performance on this PC164 leaves much to be desired. I'm > > > going to have to toss a SCSI card in this thing and just go SCSI. > > > > Indeed. I time it at 4.5MB/sec when forced to UDMA mode. NFS > > over a 100Mb network will be almost twice as fast. > > I'm seeing 13-14MB/s on my PC164 with the onboard controller. > ad0: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07-0> [199450/16/63] at ata0-master tagged WDMA2 > ad1: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07-0> [199450/16/63] at ata1-master tagged WDMA2 > The machine is running -current, but I don't think this should make > a factor 3 difference. > > > Incidentally, does anyone have a listing of third-party > > aftermarket SCSI controllers that get along with SRM? I've tried two > > different Symbios controllers, and neither is compatible enough to be > > functional. (Neither gives you dka* for disks; one lists as a NCR > > controller in show conf, the other is just a random PCI device number.) > > Oliver Lehmann has setup a webpage with tested controllers. > http://www.pofo.de/alpha-boot/index.php?field=chipset > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > Thanks, Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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