Subject: Re: Getting the imstt video card to work
From: Nixon Morada (nixonm@nethere.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 10:35:11 MST
I was grabbing the pci number from my memory which can be faulty. I tried
the card in the next slot down and the machine refused to boot at all. I
heard that on my machine it uses a special bridge chip in or something in
the first slot the other five are set up to talk to each other directly if
they have to. I think I'll just get the book and YDL2.1 and try again
later.
Thanks
Nixon
>
> I never got an IMSTT to work - so let us know if you succeed.
>
> Are you sure that the slot number is correct and that it is a full pci
> slot? On a 9600 (and maybe your machine) the slot that the card is
> installed in by default is a not a standard PCI slot. The answer is to
> move the video card to another PCI slot. You can then do a "cat /proc/pci"
> to get the slot data for the card and edit this into XF86Config. The other
> thing to watch out for is YDL running Xautoconfig-4 at startup and
> overwriting your choices.
>
> Iain
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> --On Monday, November 19, 2001 10:08 am -0800 Nixon Morada
> <nixonm@nethere.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a Mac clone Umax S900 w/ 2 scsi drives at 2GB each, 80MB RAM and an
>> IMSTT 4MB card. I am running YDL2.0 and when I had YDL 1.2 I was able to
>> get XFree86 to use the video card directly and so far I haven't been able
>> to get the card to work in YDL2.
>>
>> I have tried getting Xconfigurator to set it up but when I select imstt
>> instead of the fbdev X refuses to work and gives me an error like "No
>> video device on PCI:0,3,0" (I am doing this from memory and the error
>> message might be different)
>>
>> Fbdev works fine just slower than I would like. I have heard that the
>> architecture of my machine might prevent X from seeing the video card. Is
>> this true? Is there a way to force it to see it? Should I get another
>> video card? XFree86 3.x was able to see it and use it (just took some
>> going through hoops).
>>
>> Nixon
>>
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