From: "Amanda Hall" <rob.rowe@worldnet.att.net> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:52:52 -0800 Message-ID: <NDBBLOFEKLDDBLJEGLOHAEBKCAAA.rob.rowe@worldnet.att.net> Subject: RE: [suse-axp] Help with boot problems installing a G200 in miata (dpw 433a)
Thanks All for the pointers. The board now works. The problem was that I
had the G200 in one of the non-bridged slots. When it was placed in a
bridged slot the machine got past the AlphaBIOS. It however did fail in
milo, when initializing the Adaptec board. (strange that this is OK without
the G200). Anyway using the SuSE miata milo cured this (although it can't
see the CD-ROM).
Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Ward@compaq.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 6:04 AM
To: Amanda Hall; suse-axp@suse.com
Subject: RE: [suse-axp] Help with boot problems installing a G200 in
miata (dpw 433a)
1. The officially supported method of booting linux is through the SRM
only.
2. As for the GS200 I am not certain but it may require an unbridged PCI
slot. Depending on which version of the 433 you have it should be either
the top (or bottom) two slots that are unbridged. You can determine which
in the SRM by doing a show dev and looking for the PCI bridge chip.
I know that the basic Matrox Millenium (I or II) work fine.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amanda Hall [mailto:rob.rowe@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:11 AM
> To: suse-axp@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-axp] Help with boot problems installing a G200 in miata
> (dpw 433a)
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have just completed installing SuSe 6.3 in a dpw 433a (without the
> on-board SCSI. Classis ?). Anyway the system is configured as follows:
>
> 128 M RAM
> 2 x 2GByte SCSI drives
> Adaptec 2940 UW controller
> 433 MHz 21164A Alpha
> A Powerstorm graphics card (Impressive number of heat sinks)
> AlphaBIOS 5.7
>
> I had a few problems with the installation due to the SuSe
> Miata Milo not
> seeing the CD-ROM, and the SRM not seeing the Adaptec. However with
> suitable messing around these were overcome.
>
> It would appear that the powerstorm cards are not supported
> under linux (At
> least if they are no one's admitting it). OK I need graphics
> card. Having
> browsed around the mailing lists, it appeared that others were using a
> Matrox G200 PCI card with some success, and the G200 was also
> sold with pdw
> systems at one point. Encourage by this I purchased one from
> Matrox(Matrox
> Millenium with 8MB SDRAM).
>
> I removed the powerstorm card and slotted the Matrox into one
> of the bottom
> 64 bit PCI slots and powered up. The system goes into BIOS
> emulation and
> complains of an unsupported PCI configuration. If I boot up
> under SRM, the
> screen goes a pleasant light green color, and the machine hangs. Under
> AlphaBIOS, with the card in, there is no apparent way to get
> the machine to
> BOOT.
>
> Anyway the questions, if anyone may know the answer, are as follows:
>
> a) Is there anyway to get beyond the AlphaBios with this card on this
> machine ?
> b) If the answer above is no, does anyone know of a card that
> can get beyond
> the AlphaBIOS.
>
> If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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