Re: UP1100 & Matrox

[Major A <andras@users.sourceforge.net>]

Thanks to all for their quick replies. It just happened that I found
the information on the www.alphalinux.org site half an hour after my
posting...

I am trying to reply to all of you at a time:

> as root, type:
> 
> ln -s Tsunami /etc/alpha_systype
> 
> (just like it says in the user manual :)

This worked (Nautilus didn't). Yes, it's in the manual, sorry for not
reading that carefully enough...

> > Also, has anyone else installed potato on a UP1100 out there? (I have
> > some more minor problems...).
> 
> Yes, many times....what problems are you having?

1. Sporadic SIGSEGV with gcc. In my case, I needed to type "make" four
times to get gimp 1.1.28 compiled. None of the "internal compiler
error: caught signal 11" errors was reproducible, which tells me there
is a hardware problem (overheating?).

2. The NVRAM settings tend to get lost from time to time. A good way
of making the NVRAM forget its contents is to do a "shutdown -r now",
and then press the reset button while the screen is showing the
white/blue screen with the pre-boot messages (i.e. after linux shuts
down but before the machine resets).

3. 6 of 8 switches on the switch bank of the mainboard are not
documented. What is the function of these?

3a. Can I configure the board so that the reset switch halts the CPU
(giving me the SRM prompt) rather than reset the machine? This used to
be possible, on the Multia/UDB at least.

4. How can I get the sound chip to work? Apparently this is an
AC97-compatible AD1881(A), and is emulated as a SoundBlaster (or
ALS007 ?) by the southbridge. Both should be supported by OSS! With
sb, I get "DMA timeout, IRQ/DMA conflict?", with ac97_codec, I get
nothing (this probably is not a complete sound card driver, but what's
missing?).

Thanks in advance,

   Andras

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