Alpha woes

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	www.cpumicromart.com sells multias for like $80, Thats a system w\
a 166mhz processor, so you could just plug your processor in and change a
few jumpers and have it go.

Anthony

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Mark Gelinas wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 08:59:54AM -0400, Brian Conway wrote:
> > Last night my Multia (Alpha series) lost its onboard video card.  I'm
> > pretty sure it wasn't heat related, actually. Everything else works and
> > the machine will boot fine, but the TGA card is dead.  I attempted to plug
> > a Cirrus card into the single PCI slot, and the machine booted, but when
> > it got to jumping to the kernel after milo, the video stopped advancing
> > (much like when I forget to compile the kernel for the TGA framebuffer).
> > I remotely recompiled the kernel without the TGA support, yet the same
> > symptoms occur.  Has anyone tried getting another video card of any type
> > to work in one of these boxes?  I'd consider buying a new motherboard if I
> > could even find one that I could put the 233 mhz chip into.  Help?
> > 
> > Brian Conway
> > dogbert at clue4all.net
> > 
> Sounds like a problem I had getting an S3 Virge working in my Multia. In my
> case both video ports work - I found that when the text stopped advancing, it
> was because it was swapping back to TGA. Mine went from S3V on ARC, to TGA on
> MILO, back to S3V for use. With the above quirk, the card works fine under
> 2.0.35, albeit a bit slower than the onboard (not sure why yet).
> 
> I haven't tried it yet under the 2.2.x kernels, but I've been told that it
> should work so long as I only enable frame buffers in the kernel (ie. don't
> also add the TGA). With the TGA compiled into the kernel you'll crash on
> boot, getting a register dump.
> 
> MarkG
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