New AC2 release candidate - 5305

[Jim McCarthy]

Gary --

I have RH7.2 on a DEC alpha PWS 500au with a Matrox Millennium II
(DEC PBXGI-AC) into which I've tried adding (unsuccessfully)-: several
other Millennium II PCI video boards as second head for dual-head
display.  The SRM boot test complains of "unsupported card in slot ##"
no matter what slot I try ... which is most perplexing, since it has
no trouble recognizing the original Millenium II board (maybe DEC
added some OEM flag that SRM needs ?).  Elsewhere I've read that SRM
in the PWS is **especially** picky on this score ... guess my machine
really needs a second honest-to-goodness PBXGI-AC (4D40T) board ??

Anyway, having said that, I've now got several Matrox Millenium II
PCI boards (that are well-supported in linux under XFree86 / X.org),
if Gary [or anyone] wants to try them in their alpha machines (which
may? be less picky than my PWS 500au).  Feel free to contact me off-
list if you're interested in trying one (or two) of these boards.

    -- Jim McCarthy
       jkmccarthy(@)pacbell(.)net


On Tuesday, 25 October, 2005 07:52, Jay Estabrook wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:23:36PM -0400, Gary Richardson wrote:
>>
>> Since I use this primarily as a file server, samba domain
>> server, internal web server for testing, etc X is [not] too
>> important so I really did not try much but I did attempt
>> to install a couple of other video cards. None managed
>> to survive the boot test.
>
> Yes, that can be a problem, though if your SRM console is very
> old, the BIOS emulator in there may not be very good; version
> 5.8 appears to be the last one released.
>
>> At least with the Diamond card I have a console.  Just thought it
>> would be interesting to see if it would run but I have not invested
>> a lot of time trying.
>
> If you can find a Matrox Millennium I or II, or Permedia-2 based card,
> those are known to work quite well.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> --Jay++