Re: [suse-axp] TNT2-card did not boot

From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 10:24:32 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:24:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008161320360.8594-100000@talisman.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] TNT2-card did not boot

    The TNT2 cards use extended 32-bit BIOS calls that the x86 emulator in the
    Alpha firmware can't handle. This is currently no solution to this, other
    than using a different card.

    --rdp

    On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Thomas Bruns wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Iīve been trying to install a new PCI graphic card with TNT2-M64 chip in
    > my PC164LX but on boot not even the bios mesages were shown. The screen
    > was just black and the monitor got into powerdown mode. This happend
    > with two cards of different manufacturers and in different PCI-slots of
    > the board. The Matrox Millenium II works flawlessly.
    > Personaly I suspect the firmware was unable to initialize the card. The
    > machine is running
    > Alphabios 5.62.
    > I didnīt try a firmware update yet.
    >
    > Can anyone give an enlightening comment on this?
    >
    > Tia,
    > Thomas
    >
    > 

    -- 
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org

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