Subject: Re: PWS 433a (Miata) question about SRM
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/20/1999 11:26:01
Olaf Seibert writes:
<..>
> In the AlphaBIOS setup I selected the SRM for Digital Unix (that seemed
> a better choice than SRM for OpenVMS). When I next powered down and up,
> the SRM came up, but it told me there was an unsuppored card in slot 4,
> and would I please remove it before it would do anything else.
>
> The card in slot 4 was the video card (S3 864).
<..>
> But my main question is: how can I use the SRM with the video card that
> I have? It works well enough to show the countdown and the error
> message,I don't see any reason why the SRM would have any trouble with
> it. Besides, I obviously want to use the machine with wscons and X, not
> headless.
This is happening because you have a miata with one of the buggy pyxis
revs. Move the card to one of the 32-bit slots which is behind a ppb
& the SRM will no longer complain.
Or, if you are feeling brave, set the SRM console variable
'pci_device_override' to the PCI device id followed by the PCI vendor
id of your card.
Eg, something like this:
>>> set pci_device_override 0x88c05333
Cheers,
Drew
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