Re: dec alpha, Xorg and Matrox Millenium does not work

I tried many OSes, and only with Gentoo Linux was I able to get X working 
on my DS10 with a Matrox Millenium card.  Works quite well, there's even a 
port of Firefox.  Debian will likely work as well.


On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Don Wilburn wrote:

> Dear Alpha list,
>
> I installed OpenBSD 4.6 (the latest stable release?) on a retired Personal 
> Workstation 500au at work.  The rules say I should include a dmesg report, 
> but the floppy apparently can't be used with this hardware and I don't have a 
> good way to get it to you.  So, I'll try to include pertinent info.
>
> This is an IDE-only PWS that orginally came with Windows NT.  OpenBSD 
> installed fine, but X doesn't work.  The video card is a Matrox Millenium 
> that came with the computer.
> The OpenBSD documentation says the Millenium will work with
> Option "NoInt10"  "true"
> in the xorg.conf file, but that didn't work.  The Xorg.0.log does show that 
> option is being used.
>
> The messages that catch my eye in Xorg.0.log are:
> (partial line)...  BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
> (WW) MGA(0): Could not retrieve video BIOS?
> (EE) MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0.  Invalid argument (22)
>
> The last one is repeated again at the end of the log, so I'm guessing it's 
> the worst.
> An internet search for that BAR 0 message brings up other people's problems 
> with X, but they usually seem to be related to dual monitor setups.  I only 
> have one.
>
> A pcidump shows an address for an option ROM in that slot, but I don't know 
> if that's the video card BIOS or something else.  Maybe that doesn't matter?
>
> I'm no hacker or hardware guru.  This is all voodoo magic to me.  I'm just 
> grasping at straws, hoping to find something to make X work.  If anyone is 
> reading this and can offer some advice, I'd be grateful.
>
> Thanks,  DW
>

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