Hello,
Can anyone help me with this ? I suspect there is a problem specifying
the ATI-Mach64-GX (EISA card, not PCI) on an Alpha1000 as a video card
to use X on the console.
I try to reinstall an Alpha 1000 with Digital Unix 3.2.
Previously this machine has run DU4.0. At that time, xdm was running ok
on the console.
Now I have trouble to use xdm on the console. However, I manage to run
xdm with a PC using Reflection-X. There is an xdm process running on the
Alpha serving X to the PC with success. Only the console does not work
with X. The console works in text mode only. In other words this problem
affects the console only.
When booting the machine, the console should switch to 1024 resolution
when the log gives the messages:
"Starting at <address>"
It does not do so.
In the ATI-Mach64-GX manual I found a section that describes that it is
necessary to install OSFSERPCI350 and then to rebuild the kernel with
doconfig. I have done so, but no success.
I then have rebooted my Alpha with the genvmunix kernel. This kernel
does switch to 1024 resolution mode but at the end of the startup, when
the test "login:" prompt appears and when xdm tries to take over the
console, the kernel "bombs" and a dump is made. In other words, my
system crashes.
I have looked to the config file of an Alpha 2100 (in /sys/conf/)which
has an ATI-Mach64 PCI and I found following line:
"controller vga0 on pci0 slotX vector vgaintr"
There was no such line in my configuration file. I have added following
line in my config file (for the Alpha 1000):
"controller vga0 on eisa0 slot1 vector vgaintr"
I know that the ATI-Mach64-GX is in eisa slot1, I have checked this with
ECU. However I am not sure that the line above is completely correct.
Can anyone confirm this by looking in the config file of a similar
machine ?
With the added controller line I have created a new kernel. This kernel
does switch to 1024 resolution but it "bombs" in the same way as the
genvmunix kernel.
Finally, I can see the ATI-Mach64-GX with ECU, but in SRM with "show
config" it does not show.
Can anyone help me ? Thank you !
Received on Thu Jan 30 1997 - 11:09:39 NZDT