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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:20:42

I have gotten my hands on a Digital Personal Workstation 500a, and have
installed Debian Linux on it. It has a Digital PowerStorm 4041T (?)
graphics card, and I'm having some trouble getting it to work:

with the "vga" driver.

Has anyone been more successful than me with X and this card? If so; do
you have any tips for me? What's in your XF86Config-4 file?

I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

Thanks.

_Any_ help will be greatly appreciated.

Stein

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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:28:28

I have gotten my hands on a Digital Personal Workstation 500a, and have
installed Debian Linux on it. It has a Digital PowerStorm 4051T (?)
graphics card, and I'm having some trouble getting it to work:

with the "vga" driver.

Has anyone been more successful than me with X and this card? If so; do
you have any tips for me? What's in your XF86Config-4 file?

I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

Thanks.

_Any_ help will be greatly appreciated.

Stein

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by **Torsten Zirzlaf** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:59:15

Hi.

> I have gotten my hands on a Digital Personal Workstation 500a, and have
> installed Debian Linux on it. It has a Digital PowerStorm 4051T (?)
> graphics card, and I'm having some trouble getting it to work:

> with the "vga" driver.

> Has anyone been more successful than me with X and this card? If so; do
> you have any tips for me? What's in your XF86Config-4 file?

Nope. The reason is, that those cards are not supported by
XFree86. Some work with the tga driver, but only a few and not in
accelerated mode.

Quote:> I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
> lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
> SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
> the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
> device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
> II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
> some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

Well, I'm not sure, but SRM is quite picky about which graphics card
it accepts. From what I had heard it is possible to use Matrox cards,
3dfx Voodoo cards and some ATI cards.

I use a Voodoo 4500 and I'm happy with it.

Quote:> Thanks.

> _Any_ help will be greatly appreciated.

> Stein

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I hope this helps.

Ciao

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by **M?ns Rullg?** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:26:54

> > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
> > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
> > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
> > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
> > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
> > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
> > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

> Well, I'm not sure, but SRM is quite picky about which graphics card
> it accepts. From what I had heard it is possible to use Matrox cards,
> 3dfx Voodoo cards and some ATI cards.

> I use a Voodoo 4500 and I'm happy with it.

3Dlabs cards work fine, if you don't need 3D. XFree86 doesn't support
opengl on some 3Dlabs cards (the cheaper ones).

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by **Alessio Sia** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:31:03

Quote:> I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
> lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
> SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
> the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
> device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
> II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
> some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

Hello,
type the following line in the srm:

Quote:>>> set pci_device_override -1

Bye.

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Sysadmin - Comune di Sorso
07037 SORSO SS ITALY

by **M?ns Rullg?** » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:03:08

> > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
> > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
> > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
> > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
> > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
> > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
> > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

> type the following line in the srm:

> >>> set pci_device_override -1

And don't put anything that uses DMA in the 64-bit slots or prepare
for data loss. Graphics cards are ok, since a few pixel errors
usually don't matter much. Disk controllers are worse. Don't be
fooled by the boot messages about a workaround. It's incomplete.

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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:29:38

* Torsten Zirzlaff

Quote:> Nope. The reason is, that those cards are not supported by
> XFree86. Some work with the tga driver, but only a few and not in
> accelerated mode.

I sort of assumed that... I had to try, though.

Quote:> Well, I'm not sure, but SRM is quite picky about which graphics card
> it accepts. From what I had heard it is possible to use Matrox cards,
> 3dfx Voodoo cards and some ATI cards.

Thanks. I'm somewhat calmer now. ;-) I'll get hold of a Millennium II, then.

Quote:> I use a Voodoo 4500 and I'm happy with it.

Noted.

Stein

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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:30:43

* Alessio Sias
|
| > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
| > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
| > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
| > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
| > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
| > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
| > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?
|

Quote:> Hello,
> type the following line in the srm:

|
| >>> set pci_device_override -1

Thanks! I'll save this as a fallback plan, if the Millennium doesn't work
either.

Stein.

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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:32:09

* M?ns Rullg?rd
|
| > > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
| > > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
| > > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered at
| > > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
| > > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox Millennium
| > > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
| > > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?
| >
| > type the following line in the srm:
| >
| > >>> set pci_device_override -1
|

Quote:> And don't put anything that uses DMA in the 64-bit slots or prepare
> for data loss. Graphics cards are ok, since a few pixel errors
> usually don't matter much. Disk controllers are worse. Don't be
> fooled by the boot messages about a workaround. It's incomplete.

Also duly noted.

Thanks.

Stein

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by **Reinhard Eigne** » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:02:34

Quote:> > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
> > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
> > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered
at
> > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
> > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox
Millennium
> > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
> > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?

> Well, I'm not sure, but SRM is quite picky about which graphics card
> it accepts. From what I had heard it is possible to use Matrox cards,
> 3dfx Voodoo cards and some ATI cards.

This problem occurs when you have the Miata MX5 chipset. This chipset
is buggy so Digital locked the 64bit Slots and only tested cards have access
to the 64bit slots.
You can bypass this by typing:

Quote:>>> set pci_device_override [DEVICE_ID][VENDOR-ID]

Disabling the whole card checking:

Quote:>>> set pci_device_override -1

But the easiest way is to put the card in an other slot.

by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:10:51

* Reinhard Eigner
| > > I have also tried to change the graphics card. I replaced it with an STB
| > > lightspeed 128, but that didn't get me very far. The computer halted at
| > > SRM, and said something along the lines of: "Illegal device discovered

Quote:> at

| > > the primary bus at slot 5. Please power down and remove the illegal
| > > device." What's up with that? Would it be better with a Matrox

Quote:> Millennium

| > > II, since these boxes came with that card too, or am I screwed? Is there
| > > some way I can get the box to accept another graphics card?
| >
| > Well, I'm not sure, but SRM is quite picky about which graphics card
| > it accepts. From what I had heard it is possible to use Matrox cards,
| > 3dfx Voodoo cards and some ATI cards.
|

Quote:> This problem occurs when you have the Miata MX5 chipset. This chipset
> is buggy so Digital locked the 64bit Slots and only tested cards have access
> to the 64bit slots.
> You can bypass this by typing:

| >>> set pci_device_override [DEVICE_ID][VENDOR-ID]

Quote:> Disabling the whole card checking:

| >>> set pci_device_override -1

Quote:> But the easiest way is to put the card in an other slot.

This clears things up a bit? It's that easy? Well then. I guess I'll try
to get hold of that Millennium II anyway, but this leaves me with a
solution no matter what, then.

Thanks.

Stein

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by **Stein Ballangrud Anderse** » Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:20:00

* Reinhard Eigner

Quote:> This problem occurs when you have the Miata MX5 chipset. This chipset
> is buggy so Digital locked the 64bit Slots and only tested cards have access
> to the 64bit slots.
> You can bypass this by typing:

| >>> set pci_device_override [DEVICE_ID][VENDOR-ID]

Quote:> Disabling the whole card checking:

| >>> set pci_device_override -1

Quote:> But the easiest way is to put the card in an other slot.

Tried that now. The box wouldn't boot. "Couldn't boot from [device]"

Stein

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