On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:
> It's AlphaBIOS, I'll have another poke at it this evening
Not on a UX! It's ARCSBios, which is't ARC BIOS or AlphaBIOS. The UX has
it's own firmware and doesn't support AlphaBIOS or SRM.
Chances are that the card's BIOS isn't making it through the x86 BIOS
emulator in the firmware.
--rdp
> 2MB just isn't enough for me :)
>
>
> L.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zank [mailto:zank@a324c.a.tu-berlin.de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:02 PM
> > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro (Xpert@Play)
> >
> >
> > Hi Liam,
> > are you using SRM or AlphaBIOS?
> > Something similar happened to me with an avanti with SRM:
> > after replacing a
> > DEC-card by an ATIxpert@work,
> > i just got a black screen, nevertheless some (invisible...)
> > system activity.
> > I put back the old one, switched from srm to alphabios,
> > installed the ati-card
> > once again and -voila- it worked!
> > In general, most ATI cards seem to work fine.
> > Bye,
> > V. Zank.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I've been looking through the archives (for this list,
> > comp.os.linux.alpha,
> > > and for linux-alpha), and I can't seem to get definite info
> > on this. I have
> > > just acquired an Alpha PC164UX (Ruffian) board. I'm
> > currently using an S3
> > > Vision 868 (Diamond Stealth Video 2MB) and it works okay
> > (in general, some
> > > corruption in X). I have an ATI Rage Pro card (Xpert@Play). I tried
> > > it for a while, and I couldn't get the machine to boot
> > (black screen). Is
> > > this card supported (or do I need an AlphaBIOS upgrade or
> > something like
> > > that?)
> > >
> > > L.
> > >
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