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From: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
To: Simone Mannori <simone.mannori@gmail.com>
Cc: Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
	linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: PCI video card hangs during system boot
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:59:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570FB039.8040109@bell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACrbsaBOV3vqbwRp1i2aXA0FqgMGbuw_-9KnudnVjSwo-SW2Xg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2016-04-14 4:14 AM, Simone Mannori wrote:
>> Do you know if c8000 can setup any non HP card (e.g., ATI Rage XL)?  It was reported that
>> >some old cards would work with PDC firmware in unaccelerated fb mode, but c8000 has
>> >x86 emulator so it might be able to enable accelerated 2d/3d.
> Good hint. I have several "vintage" PCI video cards to try (including
> ATI RAGE, Vodoo, etc.) but I can't because the have 5V PCI interface.
> HP c8000 have several PCI slots BUT PCI 3.3 volt ONLY. Find
> "universal" 5V/3V PCI card is possible but the only cards that I have
> find (the ATI 9200 128Mega) fails at "BIOS" time (see the first
> message of this thread).
It seems to me that an AGP card might be a better option.  The C8000 
manual indicates that
it has one AGP 8X Pro 110W 32-bit slot.  It looks from connector pinout 
in the Technical Reference
Guide that the C8000 has a AGP 1.5V motherboard (pins 9, 16, 25 and 28 
are VCC 1.5).

The HP "supported" FireGL cards are 1.5V, 0.8V:
http://www.synthmind.com/737-18872ATIAGPGraphicsCards-AGPComplianceDetails.pdf

So, I think one needs to look for a 1.5V or Universal AGP card.  The 
first ATI AGP card to
support 1.%V appears to be RAGE 128 PRO.

These articles give info about AGP slots and what works electrically:
http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port

Dave

-- 
John David Anglin  dave.anglin@bell.net


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-12  8:20 PCI video card hangs during system boot Simone Mannori
2016-04-12 16:55 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2016-04-12 18:04   ` John David Anglin
2016-04-13  7:06     ` Simone Mannori
2016-04-13 15:02       ` John David Anglin
2016-04-14  0:18         ` Graham Gower
2016-04-14  0:29           ` John David Anglin
2016-04-14  1:44             ` Graham Gower
2016-04-14  8:14             ` Simone Mannori
2016-04-14 14:59               ` John David Anglin [this message]
2016-04-14 15:54                 ` Simone Mannori
2016-04-14 16:19                   ` John David Anglin

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