OK, that would make sense for the video card, now i just gotta get my alpha-fu going high enough to be able to know how to upgrade the firmware.
As for the sound card, yes, i tried with mpg123 as well as play, which produced nothing still. I got rid of that card (traded for a 4x SCSI burner), and i installed my 386's SB16 in there, it works fine. Thanks for the help guys, really appreciated. Richard Fillion On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Rich Payne wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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. > > Both those cards are to new to be supported by the BIOS emulator. The > Alphas have an x86 emulator in the firmware that allows them the run and > initialize your video cards.....Radeon's only work with the newest SRMs > and TNTs just started working before that, and I'm sure neither of those > versions are available for your machine. > > > 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. > > Well, I don't know the bus layout of this machine, but usually you want > the video card to be on the first PCI bus, and not behind any PCI bridges > as the emulator doesn't handle that. Again, I don't know about the slots > on this machine. It's probably worth getting the latest firmware for your > machine...it's available from: > ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v6.1/ > > I think the 3300 series was the white box (aka NT) version of the AS800, > but you might want to check on that. > > > 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. > > Interesting test.....have you started a mixer and checked the volume > levels? You may also want to just try playing a CD or MP3 file. > > --rdp > > -- > Rich Payne > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
