[gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[FIVAZ Fabien]

As my TGA2 card only worked in 8 bits mode, I switched to a Matrox Mystique PCI (the only PCI card I could find). X works just fine. But now I have another problem. I cannot switch back to text mode from X. I gives me some strange scan range (192 Khz / 230 Hz), and my screen stays black (well, greyish). Did someone have some similar problems ?

Best wishes, Fabien

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[Allen Ziegenfus]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:31:06 +0100
"FIVAZ Fabien" <Fabien.Fivaz@unine.ch> wrote:

> As my TGA2 card only worked in 8 bits mode, I switched to a Matrox
> Mystique PCI (the only PCI card I could find). X works just fine. But
> now I have another problem. I cannot switch back to text mode from X.
> I gives me some strange scan range (192 Khz / 230 Hz), and my screen
> stays black (well, greyish). Did someone have some similar problems ?
> 
> Best wishes, Fabien

I have a similar problem with a Matrox Millenium II card (mga driver).
I'm in the middle of switching from RH7.1 to Gentoo. On RH, everything
works fine but on Gentoo when I exit X all my monitor lights flash and
it doesn't return to text mode. Luckily I can either ctrl-alt-del or
ssh in to reboot. 

I've posted  on different forums (XFree, Gentoo) and haven't found any
help or answers. Which alpha packages are you using? I was trying
unstable (~alpha). Do you also get "unsupported relocation type" entries
in your X logs? What X driver is the Mystique using?

If you find a fix please share it with me.

too...

Allen

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[Marc Giger]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:13:21 -0500
Allen Ziegenfus <listmail@allenz.net> wrote:

> I've posted  on different forums (XFree, Gentoo) and haven't found any
> help or answers. Which alpha packages are you using? I was trying
> unstable (~alpha). Do you also get "unsupported relocation type"
> entries in your X logs?

This is with gcc > 3.2.x right?

Please try out the latest xfree snapshot (e.g: xfree-4.3.99.902.ebuild,
in portage too). It should have some fix for this kind of bug. Post the
results in gentoo-alpha.

If it doesn't work post a message to the xfree-devel (not xfree-user)
mailing list and descibe your problem exactly.

Thank you

Marc

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[gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[FIVAZ Fabien]

Thanks. X works with the tga driver, but only in 8 bit mode (but that's not a problem).

I also saw that many Gentoo packages are not *supported* for Alpha, but they build. Is there some place where I can tell when I manage to compile a package and test it ? Maybe in this list ?

Best wishes, Fabien


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De:	Donsbach, Jeff [mailto:jeff.donsbach@hp.com]
Date:	ven. 09.01.2004 16:04
À:	gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
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Objet:	RE: [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

Fabien wrote:
>  My problem is that the box still has it's original TGA2 graphic card
which is not
> supported by xfree. 

Yes it is. Has been for quite a while. At least it is in other distros
like Red Hat and Debian and the support was submitted back to the Xfree
maintainers (thanks to Jay Estabrook).

> Can I change the graphic board with *ANY* pci card ? Or do I have to
search for a
> Alpha-specific card ?

Matrox Millenium[II], Permedia 2 based boards and ATI Radeon 7500 all
work well and are supported as well. But, you should be able to get your
TGA2 going.

Jeff D

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] RE : [gentoo-alpha] Installation on a Digital Personal Workstation 433au

[Aron Griffis]

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FIVAZ Fabien wrote:	[Sat Jan 10 2004, 08:53:53AM EST]
> I also saw that many Gentoo packages are not *supported* for Alpha,
> but they build. Is there some place where I can tell when I manage to
> compile a package and test it ? Maybe in this list ?

bugs.gentoo.org, assign to alpha@gentoo.org

Aron

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