Re: Xorg 7 fixed on alpha
On 09/01/2007 23:06:25, Geoff Martin wrote: Reporting FULL WORKING AGAIN on my LX164, with Matrox Millennium II Graphics. Thanks Steve! Geoff Martin Hello guys I also could tell that Xorg is fully working on Alpha PWS with Matrox G450 PCI. Nicely, it is the first time I see DRI working on Matrox PCI cards! It is time for a benchmark test with Matrox G450 PCI 32MB SDR and Voodoo 5/5500 PCI 64MB! Which software could I use to test? bye! gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Installer Kernel Hangs on Alphastation 200
On 02/10/2006 22:04:00, Brian D. Pitts wrote: Boot the CDROM with -flag i then boot the kernel with ide=nodma. Let me know if it works. This didn't change the behavior. I downloaded debian-30r6-alpha-binary-1.iso and was able to install from it. Very bad. Sounds like a regression of the debian installer. You should give a try to the new installer for Debian Etch, when it comes out. By now, I could suggest you to boot the 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6 (as the 3.0 installation uses the 2.4 kernel which works for you). If even this doesn't work, then install a base 3.0 system and upgrade to 3.1 by apt-get dist-upgrade. Bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Installer Kernel Hangs on Alphastation 200
On 01/10/2006 21:28:43, Brian D. Pitts wrote: I'm trying to boot the debian-31r3-alpha-binary-1 CD on an Alphastation 200 with firmware version 7. Aboot prints the following messages, then the kernel hangs. boot dka4 -flags 0 ... loading compressed boot/vmlinuz loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz zero-filling 407760 bytes at 0xfc571900 loading init.d (2940211 bytes / 2871 blocks) at 0xfc12000 starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall This kind of problems usually is related to DMA handling on bugged chipsets (the CMD64x, among others) You should try booting with ide=nodma flag. Boot the CDROM with -flag i then boot the kernel with ide=nodma. Let me know if it works. Bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G450 PCI and UP2000
On 21/07/2006 11:06:59, mattsimis wrote: 1) Has anyone ever had the G450 or similar working? Ive seen a Suse Alpha post with the same issue on the G450 and Up1000 from 200*1* - doesnt bode well. I don't have any experience of UP1000, but I've used a G450 PCI 32MB in a Personal Workstation 500A running Debian Woody and Debian Sarge. The PCI card has an onboard PCI-to-PCI bridge, so you have to put by hand the PCI BusID in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, which usually is on PCI BUS #2 on PWS which already has 2 PCI buses. 2) Has anyone built the newest Xorg with these 64 bit fixes yet? 3) Did the MGA driver work better in Xorg 6.9? I tried to downgrade by changing my APT sources and specifying SID, but downgrading Xorg APT wanted to remove X11-* !! never used Xorg. I'll catch up when Etch becomes stable. 4) Ive tried 2.6.15, 2.6.17.1 and 2.6.17.4, mix of SMP and self compiled, no difference.. hmm, that wasnt a question. Debian on PWS was running fine with 2.6.8 until 2.6.11, then I switched the G450 for a Voodoo 5/5500 because this card has DRI support on Alpha. I still have the PCI G450 and I could put it in the box again to check configuration if you need (but on Xfree 4.3.0) As far I know, the PCI version of G450 lacks DRI support. Maybe something has changed in the last months, do you know if it has DRI support on latest kernel releases and Xorg? Bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G450 PCI and UP2000
On 21/07/2006 22:23:52, mattsimis wrote: Well, 2 pieces of good news: Xorg 6.9.0 does indeed seem to support the G450 fine DRI even seems to work! Xfree always supported the G450 very well, both AGP and PCI version in 2D. DRI was only possible with the AGP version of the G450. Xorg is able to do DRI on a G450 *PCI*? If so, it's really good news. Matrox cards have fantastic video output. Bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G450 PCI and UP2000
On 21/07/2006 12:22:15, mattsimis wrote: I thought the Voodoo 5500 wasnt working either at all or properly (something about one of the VSA chips being disabled, effectively making it a Voodoo 4500). Knowing my luck, the V5500 wont boot on the UP2000.. The Voodoo 4/5 cards are really well supported and still good at low end 3D graphics. Just enough to see Quake II and Egoboo running one day every year on my PWS. The second chip of the Voodoo 5 card is simply not used. I had to do this: set pci_override -1 to get the video card recognized by SRM. This UP2000 and the 164UX (Raptor) I had before have to be most uncompatible Alpha boards in regards GFX support out there! Anyone want to buy that Radeon!? ;) Maybe yes! :) Bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multia Install -- Success!!!
On 06/02/2006 04:14:13, Harmon Seaver wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that -- but the major heating problem is caused by the hard drive, especially when people put bigger ones in there, like the 3.5 drives. Since mine won't have a hd, just a flash card, I think that won't be much of a problem. Plus it's going to be outside, under a tiny root to keep the sun and rain off it, because I need to mount it on the wifi antenna mast. actually I think that the multia is not very well cooled at all, with or without harddisk. I don't have the controller with internal 2,5 scsi cable, but if I had it, I would have put a 2,5 scsi harddisk (which I already have) and use the spare PCI slot for a PCI cooling fan (pretty cheap, really cold) Can the multia boot from a compact flash disk? I should give it a try! I didn't know about this capability, which could really be useful. I know that the SRM cannot boot to IDE disk, I tried with a ATA Flash of 256MB size which I borrowed from a HP thin client and it didn't work. Someone told me that the Multia could boot to IDE disk from Alphabios but I haven't try it yet. I've got a 2.2ghz intel box running debian on my desk, along with a Mac G3, so I don't need the multia there. 8-) Me too, but Multia is the Universal *Desktop* Box. Just drop the installation after deselecting everything on tasksel. Next use dselect to add only the required packages and you're ready. Ah, that would work better I guess. I kept trying to use tasksel and just choose laptop and unix server, but even so it adds x windows, lpr, exim, etc even tho you don't choose them. Weird. Yes. Deselect everything from tasksel and end the installation just after (it would install a couple of packages anyway) Then [apt-get install packages | dselect] and you'll be satisfied! :) I've got another little box for a liteweight desktop box -- a hacked I-opener. Just a LCD screen with the computer mainboard on the back, running Jailbait linux on the 16mb flash. It's 233mhz intel, 128 ram, usb wifi. I've got to solder some leads from the sound chip for RCA cables to hook to my stereo so I can play mp3 mounted nfs from my desktop box upstairs. very nice. maybe this could be better (and safer!) than the multia for running 24x7... I'm just worried for the health of your Multia! :)) bye! gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multia Install -- Success!!!
On 06/02/2006 10:47:48, Uwe Schindler wrote: At 10:03 06.02.2006, you wrote: I don't have the controller with internal 2,5 scsi cable, but if I had it, I would have put a 2,5 scsi harddisk (which I already have) and use the spare PCI slot for a PCI cooling fan (pretty cheap, really cold) Can the multia boot from a compact flash disk? You can add compact flash disks as normal IDE drives with an adaptor. http://www.bwct.de/cf-ide.html Sure I know about CF-IDE adapters, but the problem is that the multia is not really up to date with IDE features. The ATA-flash I tried is actually seen as a 256MB drive from every PC I tried, but the Multia doesn't see it (as for sho dev at SRM) So I asked if the Multia could boot directly from Compact Flash I was thinking about the Multia's two PCMCIA slots and an adapter for that slots. If you have money, you could buy an IDE - SCSI transformer (there are some on the market): http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_scsi.asp WOW! Thanks for the information! I thought that only yamaha produced a limited features adapter for IDE CDRWs, but this adapter is way better! That is really useful, for many machines not only the Multia!! bye gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multia Install -- Success!!!
On 06/02/2006 12:10:33, Marc Zyngier wrote: Of course, mine is a VX42. VX40 is another story (at least because of the infamous 74F623 problem). My fault. Indeed I have a VX40 and I thought that all Multias had that problem with that chip. I was quite sure that all multia types shared the same motherboard and components. I should look at the faq more than once a year... :) bye! gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multia Install -- Success!!!
On 05/02/2006 23:09:14, Harmon Seaver wrote: Now, if I could just get it to install a truly minimal install. Tasksel sux. All I want to use this multia for is a router/firewall/wifi access point, and hopefully run it eventually from an ide cf card, but so far the install seems to want to install waaay too much stuff. Hello The Multia suffers of some heating problems. I know that the original slashdot.org run 24 hours a day on a Multia, but I have to suggest you not to put it at continuous work, just to let it live longer! Just look around the net, there are many documents explaining the heating problem of the Multia much better than I could do. Just drop the installation after deselecting everything on tasksel. Next use dselect to add only the required packages and you're ready. I use my Multia as a (very) lightweight desktop (rox+fluxbox+abiword +gnumeric+links2+balsa+pan) but it requires a lot of patience... :) For this, I suggest you to use the old XFree86 v3 driver for TGA which is available on Woody The v3 driver simply takes ~25MB less than the v4 TGA driver and runs faster :) Bye! gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
