SUMM: ATI mach 64 PCI Card annoying message upon bootup

From: Guy Dallaire <dallaire_at_total.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:25:59 -0500

Thanks to all who replied

First, my posting:

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Does anyone using an ATI Mach 64 PCI Video card in an Alpha server 2100 see
the following message upon bootup (Both of my servers show this in the uerf
listing)

   eisa 0 at pci0
   fd0 at fdi0 unit 0
   vga0 at eisa0
   1024x768 (ATI64 )
   vga0: ATI Mach64-GX Rev. 3
==>Attempt to disable non-existant _interrupt -1<= This annoys me !

There seems to be no problem with this, the server is running fine, the
display is OK, etc... But I don't like unanswered error messages....

I told DEC support about that but it's as if I spoke a martian dialect to
them. The vaguely told mt that this was a "normal" problem.

If anyone uses an ATI Mach 64 card in an AlphaServer 2100, please check your
uerf report and tell me if that non-existant interrupt is specific to my
setup...

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The answer is: I am not alone.

Also, this is NOT a PCI card but an ISA card. Some suggested to fiddle with
the ECU utility but I prefer to leave it alone as it totally messed my
system's date the last time I ran it....

It seems that DU 4.0 fixes this particularly annoying message.

                                Thanks again to those who replied.

Guy Dallaire
dallaire_at_total.net

"God only knows if god exists"
Received on Mon Nov 11 1996 - 22:09:58 NZDT

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