Subject: Re: Getting the imstt video card to work
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 12:38:47 MST
I never got an IMSTT to work - so let us know if you succeed.
Are you sure that the slot number is correct and that it is a full pci
slot? On a 9600 (and maybe your machine) the slot that the card is
installed in by default is a not a standard PCI slot. The answer is to
move the video card to another PCI slot. You can then do a "cat /proc/pci"
to get the slot data for the card and edit this into XF86Config. The other
thing to watch out for is YDL running Xautoconfig-4 at startup and
overwriting your choices.
Iain
--On Monday, November 19, 2001 10:08 am -0800 Nixon Morada
<nixonm@nethere.com> wrote:
> I have a Mac clone Umax S900 w/ 2 scsi drives at 2GB each, 80MB RAM and an
> IMSTT 4MB card. I am running YDL2.0 and when I had YDL 1.2 I was able to
> get XFree86 to use the video card directly and so far I haven't been able
> to get the card to work in YDL2.
>
> I have tried getting Xconfigurator to set it up but when I select imstt
> instead of the fbdev X refuses to work and gives me an error like "No
> video device on PCI:0,3,0" (I am doing this from memory and the error
> message might be different)
>
> Fbdev works fine just slower than I would like. I have heard that the
> architecture of my machine might prevent X from seeing the video card. Is
> this true? Is there a way to force it to see it? Should I get another
> video card? XFree86 3.x was able to see it and use it (just took some
> going through hoops).
>
> Nixon
>
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