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Lupin_the_3rd
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:17 pm    Post subject: PC164 alpha and PCI bridge chips Reply with quote

Has anyone been successful in getting a Matrox G450 PCI to work in a PC164 Alpha?

I think it may be due to the PCI bridge chip that's on the G450 PCI card. If I put an old Matrox Millenium II in the PC164, it shows up as PCI:0:6:0 but if I put the G450 in, I see a PCI bridge chip at PCI:0:6:0 and a "G450 AGP" at PCI:2:0:0

SRM recognizes the G450 just fine, Linux boots just fine, the G450 works just fine with or without Framebuffer console turned on. BUT- when I try to start X, I get a signal 11 and it quits. I've tried adding a PCI bus entry to the device section, I'm using the correct framebuffer options in the xorg.conf when the frame buffer is turned on, but I just cant get it to work. BTW this is Gentoo 2005.0 xorg 6.8.2

Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been having similar issues on my alphaserver 800 with a range of cards including a matrox g450 card. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to solve it :cry:
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Lupin_the_3rd
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I've discovered it's not the PCI bridge chip that's the problem. I just tried swapping my G450 PCI for a G200 PCI, and I get the exact identical results. The G200 does not have a bridge chip.

When I run startx I get about a thousand of these lines:

Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10
Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10

And then I get this:

Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10

*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional informat.

XIO: fatal IO error 54 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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32bit PCI: ATI Radeon 9100 (DRI works!)
32bit PCI: Generic Firewire 400 card
64bit PCI: BCM5703 Gig-E (Compaq NC7771)
64bit PCI: Sil3124 SATA w/ mdadm RAID1 (pair of WD VelociRaptors)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can get rid of the relocation errors by adding the dlloader USE flag to /etc/make.conf and then recompiling Xorg.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks griffy, that did work and got rid of those messages!!

I still get a signal 11 when I try to startx with the x.org mga server.

I did try the x.org fbdev server and it works perfectly, but is not accelerated. I need XV extension for video.

I'm experimenting with directfb right now (directfb.org) to see if that will work on alpha. Directfb appears to work best with Matrox cards so if it works on Alpha, it just might do the trick for me....
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32bit PCI: ATI Radeon 9100 (DRI works!)
32bit PCI: Generic Firewire 400 card
64bit PCI: BCM5703 Gig-E (Compaq NC7771)
64bit PCI: Sil3124 SATA w/ mdadm RAID1 (pair of WD VelociRaptors)
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