Radeon 9000 on UP2000 - again!

[A. Devine]

Sorry to dig up an ancient post, but Im wondering if anyone can advise, Im 
have the similar problems as the OP (Radeons and a UP2000). I got a very 
nice Hercules Radeon 9000 PCI card after months of searching Ebay. 
Unfortunately I didnt see this thread and it doesnt work as well as hoped. 
With only the Radeon 9000 in I get no Blue SRM screen at all. So I tried 
Jays suggestion:

With the Radeon on the second PCI bus and a Voodoo3 on the main I can get 
AlphaCore booting but then it hangs on "Initialising Hardware" (right after 
the prompt to goto "Interactive" boot). At the very start of the process 
there are several prompts relating to problems addressing memory for a PCI 
device (presumably the Radeon).

So Im stuck on the hang at "Initialising Hardware".. so close. Any ideas?
If its truely a lost cause I would be interested in swapping this Radeon for 
the fastest Radeon possible in a UP2000 (Radeon 7000/7500?). It should work 
on other Alpha boards.. I vaguely remember having a 9000 working in a 
Ruffian board for instance(but the Voodoo does not!).



Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
  a.. From: Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>
  b.. To: axp-list redhat com
  c.. Subject: Re: Radeon 9000 on UP2000+ ?
  d.. Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:21:09 -0500

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:55:43PM +0100, Heid Oliver wrote:
>
> I just put that shiny new ATI Radeon 9000 PCI into an UP2000+, but I
> didn't even get the inital blue SRM console. It looks like SRM
> (version 5.8-81) seems unable to recognize the radeon card ( I
> booted into SRM with a second video card). Is this a known issue, or
> am I just doing something wrong? Any help much appreciated!

Sigh...

I hate to rain on the parade, but the SRM console on UP2000+ seems
to be incapable of handling the BIOS on the more recent ATI cards.
Very recently there was a failure for it to work on a PCI 7500, which
was a very unpleasant surprise... :-(

One possible workaround: put the 9000 on the second PCI bus, then
wait for XFree86 4.3.0 to show up, as it has bus "domains" which
should help it to work from the non-zero buses...

 --Jay++

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