Video Cards and UDB/Multias

[Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk voicenet com>]

    Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on this problem... 
Silly me, I never realized I had to recompile the kernel without support
for the TGA frame buffer...  Apparently there was some kind of
conflict b/w the frame buffer and the Mach64 video card...

Adam Kirchhoff
 

I'm wondering if anyone has managed to get Linux to boot on a UDB/Multia
with a video card installed in the one PCI slot?  Everything else seems to
work fine, but I'd like the option of higher color depths than I can get
with the TGA Server.

So far I've attempted two cards: an S3 864 and an ATI Mach64 card...  The
x86 emulator initializes the cards correctly (using ARC, rather than the
Milo code) but, each time, as the kernel is booting, I get an error
concerning kernel paging requests...  (Both cards worked under x86 Linux).

I don't have the error from the S3 card in front of me, but, with the Mach
card, this is (at least part of) what I get:

unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000000b9720
swapper(1): Oops 0
pc = []     ra = [    ps = 0000
r0  = fffffc000052b120  r1=0000000000000fa0   r2 = 0000000000000001
r3  = 00000000000b8aa0  r4 = 0000000007200000  r5 = 0000000000000014


This starts right after the line:

Starting kswapd v1.5

(Please bear in mind that this figures are handwritten down, written down
after my last attempt to boot with the Mach64 card, so all the digits may
not be exactly right).

According to a number of faq's, the S3 card should be supported by XFree86's
S3 server for Alpha Linux, but I'm not sure about the Mach64 card.  Either
way, it seems pretty irrelevant at this point since it the system won't even
boot with either card.

I've attempted to boot off an already installed Linux system (which
obviously boots when I don't have either card in) and off the boot floppy.
In both cases, I get the error...  Any help would be appreciated...  Thanks.

Adam K Kirchhoff