RE: S3 928 video card on Jensen

["Champigny, Michael" <Michael Champigny compaq com>]

Good luck...I sold the Jensen a long time ago, but
I did have a Diamond Stealth EISA card that worked
fine. Your best bet is to look on Ebay for one of
these, or the Elsa Winner. I have also tried 
Hercules Dynamite and Fahrenheit Orchid card and
neither of those worked under SRM or ARC on the Jensen.
It is *very* picky and has limited support for
cards.

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Luiz Emediato [mailto:thooft2002@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:55 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: S3 928 video card on Jensen


Hi Jay,

I have seen several documents on alphalinux stating that
Elsa Winner EISA/ISA 1000 S3 928 video card works fine on
Jensen. Do you know where I can find a list of supported
cards on SRM and/or ARC ?
I am trying to find an ELSA Winner 1000 card but it is
very hard to find it.

thanks in advance,
Luiz

>From: Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com>
>Reply-To: axp-list@redhat.com
>To: axp-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: S3 928 video card on Jensen
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:27:52 -0500
>
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0500, Luiz Emediato wrote:
> >
> > I tested the S3 928 Diamond Stealth Pro ISA and here are the results:
> > 1. using ARC firmware (NT boot), the video card BIOS is displayed, I get

>the
> > regular firmware menu, ECU reconfiguration is fine using
> > config for "Standard VGA video" (PHI...cfg). WinNT4 runs just fine.
> > 2. now, switching to OSF1 things are bad: after power-cycling the 
>machine
> > the image is lost, that is, I can not see neither Diamond BIOS nor SRM
> > messages.
> > Then, to return to ARC I typed:
> >
> > q (if at aboot prompt)
> > halt (if at srm prompt)
> > set os_type nt
> >
> > and power-cycle the machine again to obtain ARC menu.
> > Do you know why there are such differences between ARC and SRM video
> > configurations?
>
>IIRC, ARC always had a BIOS emulator that would attempt to run whatever
>VGA card's BIOS was present.
>
>Also, IIRC, SRM on JENSEN never had a BIOS emulator, or at least not
>until the latest release(s). Thus, the SRM console was required to
>know intimate details about each card that was to be supported, so
>that it could initialize it properly with emulating the BIOS.
>
>I believe the S3 924-based cards were supported on JENSEN under SRM,
>but perhaps nothing later; the 928 was later... :-\
>
>Sorry.
>
>--Jay++
>
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