AlphaStation 500 MILO problems + Voodoo questions
Hi,
I successfully installed debian woody on my AlphaStation AS500/500 in
the past using the SRM console and using the ATI MACH64 clone which
was installed when I bought it. It was running fine, until the harddisk
was facing it's end ...
Well, the ATI graphics card was running under linux/xfree before,
but since I had to open the AlphaStation anyway to replace the harddisk,
I replaced the graphics card with a better one (Voodoo 3 3000).
I managed to install linux (again, again SRM console), but it's not
being initialized by Xfree (nor SRM), although XFree86 is set up
correctly and seems to run fine (except I don't see anything).
Also, the tdfxfb Framebuffer load fine, but isn't able to produce any
display.
However when I switch to ARC, the Voodoo gets initialized and I can use it
without problems! Since I just did a minimum Linux installation, I
thought I might aswell reinstall Linux again, this time using ARC & MILO
(instead of SRM and aboot), since this approach seems more promising to me
to get a working grahpics card under Linux. Well, AFAIK there is no
easy way to switch from a SRM installed Linux to one using ARC
(FAT partition vs. BSD disklabel on SRM)
The AS500 (Codename Bret) is IIRC pretty close to a 'Alcor' (AS600),
so I chose this MILO image. Unfortunately it stops when trying to run MILO
(at 'Swapping to PALcode at 0x0'), so I tried other images, with the
same result. Well, at least the MILO for pc164 showed some more success
(MILO stops, at the prompt I try to boot Linux from the CDROM, but stops
with SCSI timeouts), and the xlt is also promising (similar to the pc164
expericence, but stops when trying to spinning up the SCSI harddisk,
although the HD automatically spins up when getting power).
Any clues how to install Debian using ARC on a AS500 or
(even better) any clue how to get the Voodoo running when using SRM?
And a second thing: does anybody know where to get the EISA Configuration
Disk (since you can't get them on the internet anymore due to legal
reasons)? My sound doesn't work and I tried some settings people here
said that might work, but unfortunately they didn't.
Greetings, max
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