From: Jane Caldwell-Myers (Jane@nickel.laurentian.ca)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 14:08:19 EDT
Hello all,
This card is unsupported on on version tru 64 v5.1A.
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
>>> Jane Caldwell-Myers 4/30/2004 3:53:02 PM >>>
Hello,
I have an ATI RADEON 7500 Graphisc Controller on an ES40 running Tru64
Unix V5.1A. The configuration shows as
vga0 at pci 0 slot 3, 640x480 VGA 16 colour, vga0 generic VGA
driver
at boot time.
The CDE will display but the graphics are not clear and I cannot start
up the Netscape browser. It opens and then quickly closes.
Is there some type of additional configuration required.>>>>>
Thanks again for the responses from:
John Franzini:
For 2D graphics, the currently available card for an ES40 running
V5.1A is:
3X-DEPVZ-AA -- PCI TO 10/100MBPS EHTERNET, GRAPHICS, LVD SCSI
COMBO ADPTR (Storage/Network/Video Combo)
Older 2D cards that are supported in the ES40 with V5.1A, but which
may no longer be orderable are:
SN-PBXGF-AB -- 3D LABS OXYGEN VX1, 32MB PCI GRAPHICS CARD
SN-PBXGK-BB -- ELSA GLORIA SYNERGY 8MB GFX (GRAPHICS)
For 3D graphics, the currently available cards for an ES40 running
V5.1A are:
Kevin Dea wrote:
Just a suggestion, but the Radeon 7500 is not completely compatible
with
the ES40. You will get VGA, but never realize the full resolution. If
you
have a good source for spare PC parts, look for a card with the
s3trio
chipset usually with 1 or 2 megs of video RAM (it works fine with 1
meg).
This will get your video to work properly. There is another chipset
that
works, but I can't remember off the top of my head, I believe it's the
Permedia 2 chipset.
Any PC video card with either chipsets and PCI interface should work
with
the ES40.
and Denise McCracken wrote:
I researched this exhaustively and found that there was not and
never will be support for the Radeon 7500 card in Tru64 5.1a. 5.1b
does
support it.
Thank you all for your help.
SN-PBXGD-AD -- POWERSTORM300 PCI, 16MB FRAME BUFFER & 16MB TEXTURE
MEMORY
SN-PBXGD-AE -- POWERSTORM350 PCI, 30MB FRAME BUFFER & 16MB TEXT
MEM,
STEREO
Jane Caldwell-Myers
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 Ext. 2150
jane@laurentian.ca
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