Re: AlphaStation 500 MILO problems + Voodoo questions
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:39:26PM +0100, M. Grabert wrote:
>
> BTW, I tried serial console and 'set console graphics' - in the latter
> configuration I can't see anything, so I login remotely. The result is the
> same - black screen on CRT or LCD - no 'out of sync' message nor 'no
> signal' or 'not connected', just a black screen/no change.
That's what one gets when the BIOS emulator in the console fails.
> The SCSI hd and cdrom are detected, but it tries to spin it up
> immediately afterwards ... and seems to stop then.
My symptoms were a stream of SCSI error messages related to the CDROM
(unit 6), but not the HD. When I disconnected the CDROM, the HD was
recognized and MILO was usable to boot from, which I proceeded to do.
I believe that the problem is in the QLogic driver used in the MILO;
if possible, work around it by isolating the CDROM on it's own SCSI
bus, using another SCSI controller, say QLogic or NCR.
Finally, I had the following success running X from the XLT MILO:
1. Voodoo Banshee
2. ATI Rage 128
3. ATI Radeon 7500
All the above not only ran X, but ran 3D apps as well!!! :-) :-)
I assume that the Voodoo3 3000 should also work in this environment.
NOTE: this testing was done under our RH 7.2 for Alpha plus a number
of updates, including kernel (to 2.4.18+), but the XFree86 was pretty
much the original RH 7.2 version (4.1.0+).
Good luck.
--Jay++
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