Problems with Matrox Mystique in 1000A

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:06:01AM +0000, Roberto de Iriarte wrote:
> 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... 
> 
> Yes, you should, your system has a pci<->pci bridge. The 64 bit slot(s), 
> if availible, are in front of the bridge. Try that. Otherwise (I'm 

AS1000A does not have 64 bit PCI slots.

The topmost 3 are the primary PCI bus, there is a silkscreen text on the
mainboard indicating which are primary and which are secondary slots.

Worth trying..

> sorry, i do not own an AS1000A, so i cannot tell you what slot to use) 
> look in the system documentation. PCI Video cards should not be 
> installed behind the bridge for that very reason (I remember seeing the 
> very same problem under NT on my AS2100A wth a Matrox).
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