Apologies.. shows exactly how much I know currently.. it looks
like what AlphaBIOS sounds like...
I may have to hunt down a Mill II then..
L.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 6:17 PM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: ATI Rage Pro (Xpert@Play)
>
>
> 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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