Re: Oxygen VX1 32MB PCI with Alpha RH 7.0

["Robert M. Riches Jr." <richesr1 inetarena com>]

> From: "\"Thursday\" AKA dr. john" <thursday@allidaho.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:08:26 -0700
>
> I put the VX1 into my  PWS 500a running a new RH 7.1 installation.  The
> Kudzu hardware daemon detected a new card and gave me a lis of cards to
> pick, none of them the VX1.
>
> I picked "other" in the list of cards to install and then it seemed that
> the chipset WAS detected.  From there it was just a matter of clicking
> boxes.  You get to choose one or more color depth/screen resolution
> combos, a screen shot comes up and you get to say if you like it, if not
> Kudzu runs the next lower one for your approval, etc. I got a fairly
> stable screen at 24-bit color, 1280x1024 reso.
>
> There are problems with this card on my machine, But i am thinking there
> may be a hardware element to them.

One suggestion would be to try XFree86 4.2.0.  On a UP2000,
I found RH7.1 and XFree86 4.1.0 did not work, but XFree86
4.2.0 compiled from xfree86.org sources does work pretty
well.  At 1600x1200 and 24-bit color, I still see sparkles
and flashes on the screen, and occasionally the X server
flows up with signal 8.  For the signal 8 issue, Redhat
says everything should use the -mieee compilation switch.
Jay Estabrook has suggested adding "#define HasCbrt NO"
to host.def.  I compiled with the latter suggestion but
have not been able to find a deterministic way to get the
existing X server to crash reliably.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
richesr1@inetarena.com