Hello, i ran into a little problem with my alpha, and i was hoping htat one of you could give me a hand here.
I bought myself a used Digital Server 3305 off of ebay, and it came with no documentation. I managed to install Debian on it, and it works quite well. I had Potato with XF3, but i upgraded to Woody with XF4. This caused a few problems. XF4 doesnt have support for the S3 Trio which is what the alpha has onboard. So i decided to buy a video card for it, an ATI Radeon 32Meg SDR for PCI. I put it in the first slot, moved the jumper needed to disable onboard video, turned the box on, and the monitor gets no signal. I looked up on ATI's site, and they said that the card requires PCI 2.2, so i figured that the box was just too old for that. So i tried the TNT based card i have in this computer to test, same thing. I tried with and old S3 Trio64, same thing. I read (i think on this ML's archives) that video cards need to be in the 64bit slot, so i tried that, didnt help. I dont know how far the boot goes, nor do i have a VT100 dumb terminal to hook to the port in the back to check. Another problem i had is with a SB Live (yes, im a sucker for marketing when it comes to hardware). Debian detects it, when i do cat /proc/pci, i see it, the driver installs just fine, i can do "cat /dev/sda > /dev/dsp" and no error occurs, but no sound comes out of the card. The specifics of the box (it it helps) are: Digital Server 3305 - Model : 6500A 21164 (Noritake according to cpuinfo) at 500Mhz AlphaBIOS firmware version 5.64 I dont know the SRM version. Thanks Richard Fillion
