Subject: Re: [suse-axp] TNT2-card did not boot
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 10:24:32 PDT
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
>
>
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