Problems with Matrox Mystique in 1000A

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:21:55PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my AS 1000A 5/400, I've put a Matrox Mystiqe with 4MB of VRAM.  Its 
> got the 1064SG chip, which is supported by X11 and the mga accelerated 
> driver.  However, XFree86 under both 1024x768x16 and 800x600x16, I get 
> _bad_ graphics corruption, consisting of vertical yellow lines down the 
> screen in all windows and graphics elements.  Of note is that this card 
> is from a PC.  Is there anything I can do about this?  Is it something 
> Alpha or bus speed related?  Should I try another slot?  Its in the 
> slot the original card was in...
> 
> I had tried to run X with the supplied 1MB Number Nine Trio64+ card, 
> but that ended in failure as the machine never actually brought up the 
> display in graphics mode (still was in text mode with gibberish) and 
> whenever I pressed Ctrl+ALT+Backspace to exit the X server, the machine 
> paniced with a "sense code 0x8e <something>" error.
> 
> I happen to have a Dell card, but its also a Trio64+ and I'm not sure 
> it will work well. What video cards have people gotten to run perfectly 
> find in their AlphaServers?

Andrew (gallatin@) has reported success with Matrox Millenium cards.
I think it is safe to conclude XFree is still very much x86/PC centric
and that does not help :-/

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