Hi guys,
Thanks to Tom Blinn, Allan Rollow and Arnold Sutter for the prompt
replies.
Original Q at the end of this mail.
Allan stated that there have been problems at elder versions of 500au
and to put the graphic card
at pci bus 0.
-- ours is new and at pci bus 0 ( as far as I know any pci based graphic
has to be on bus 0 ??? )
-- where I can agree is that putting 2 cards ( any type ) to pci 1 the
system will no longer boot
-- it doesnt startup the bootdisk on the scsi bus - so problems with
load seem still to exist.
-- that means on the other side you cannot use all pci slots :(
Tom suggested to do show config to see if the card will be detected and
to ask my DEC representstive.
-- show config does recognize the card as well as the kernel when
booting, I checked that
-- very early.
-- since I'm more than 6 years with DEC as a freelancer normally my
account manager and
-- sometimes even the tec edit is coming to me asking how to solve
certain problems ;-)
-- Thx anyway - you couldn't know that ;-)
Arnold said not all graphics ( especially TGA ) are supported on this
machine.
-- ours is a very exotic one - specially prepared for this project and
we had a lot of trouble
-- with that company over the last years - no, I will not tell the name
here.
More testing showed that the card is recognized at srm level as well as
in the kernel
on 500au as well as 255 station, on 40A, 40D and 40E.
I was able to switch the card to vga mode ( via DIPS ) and it was
working on both machines
and the states OS versions.
It does not work in "special" mode on the 500au with 40D and 40E.
It does work on 255 with 40D and 40E.
As soon as I install the driver it gets a "kernel address,......" and
falls down.
So the reason is simply the driver which maybe causes problems on the
64bit PCI bus
( its a 32 bit card, and I do NOT know if they are speaking pci 2.0
protocol ).
I'm very happy to come in contact with this company once more *argggg*
original Q:
is there any known restriction for DIGITAL Personal Workstation 500au
to put in a PCI graphic card.
I have one ( very special from an italian company we use for hardware
compression/decompression )
sitting on PCI 0 Slot 11 and it does not work.
The card is ok - vewrified in an Alpha Station 255.
Since the 255 is end of life we had to move to Personal 500 for the next
machines we ordered.
In 255 they are working perfect.
Kernel is configured, Driver is enabled.
The machine is pretty ok when booted via set console serial.
There is not second VGA to be disabled first.
Known restiction on certail slots ???
Thx again
---Maik
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Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 22:07:47 NZDT