IF having more lspci -v from MIATA helps, I have a PWS433 that I am running 2.4.26 on right now. I'm more than happy to send info/whatever to help track down bugs.
Thanks! James James Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 59959089 AIM: spledos MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery On Tue, 4 May 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > > On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek <vorlon#debian.org> wrote: > > > > Could you post the output of lspci on your system? > > > # lspci > > pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > > 0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip > > 21142/43 (rev 30) > > 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > > 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > > 0000:00:07.2 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > > 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > > 0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev > > 02) > > 0000:01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI > > (rev 05) > > 0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 (rev > > 01) > > > # uname -a > > Linux niunia 2.2.25 #4 Sun Mar 21 01:24:05 CET 2004 alpha GNU/Linux > > > > There seems to be a possibility that the problems most people are > > > running into on alphas are caused not by bugs in the drivers for > > > individual controllers, but by bugs in the PCI setup routines; so PCI > > > bridges may cause an otherwise functional card to fail. > > > so where would be the fix/workaround for that? > > Well, knowing that this is a case where the PCI bridge isn't on the card > with the SCSI controller, you might try moving the SCSI card into one of > the first three slots (as Jay also suggests for your video -- though > speedy video is probably a lower priority on a system you can't get to > work at all :). > > And thanks for posting the lspci info. Hopefully, this will eventually > be of use in figuring this bug out, now that we have more of an idea of > when it does or doesn't manifest. Comparing with Jaakko's working > configuration, which seems to differ principally in the revision of PCI > bridge: > > 00:08.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 01) > 01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev > 05) > > Cheers, > -- > Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer >
