On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0500, Terry A. Bowling wrote: > > I have a number of PWS433au's running Digital Unix 4.0d and one PWS600au > running RH7.1. I want to give Debian a try on one of the 433's. > > The 600 has a PBXGK-BB graphics card which is an Elsa Gloria Synergy 8 > (aka Powerstorm 4D10T, I believe this is a Permedia2 chipset with 8MB > ram).
Correct. > The 433 has a PBXGB-AA graphics card which I believe to be a Powerstorm > 3D30 using the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429 chipset with 2MB ram. Yes, PBXGB aka 3D30 is a TGA2 (8-plane) with 2MB memory; it uses the Cirrus VGA for text-mode console, and TGA2 chipset for accelerated X. > I just updated the 433 to SRM V7.2 with the Compaq 6.0 update CD. If I > put the Elsa card into the 433 and booted to SRM, I get the following > error message: > Illegal device detected on primary bus in physical slot 4 > Power down the system and remove the unsupported device from slot 4 > > My questions are: > 1. Will the Elsa card work in the 433's? It works great in the 600 > with same SRM version. Consoles should be the same between the 433 and 600. > 2. Does the Powerstorm 3D30 card really only have 2MB and how well > supported is it under XFree4x. Yes, only 2MB, and will only run in 8-bit depth. Acceleration is OK, but not great, and it works under RH 7.1 XFree86 4.0.3. > 3. Since we have the 3D30 in our 433's under DU4.0D, we have problems > with "running out of colours." Is there anything I can do to squeeze > more performance out of these without upgrading to True64? Using a window manager that conserves colors (ie NOT KDE or GNOME or CDE :-), would go a long way toward this goal. Dunno if this is possible under DU... --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
