[Info-vax] Radeon 7500 PCI: I64 works, Alpha not?

[MG]

On 18-12-2011 20:46, Steven Schweda wrote:
>     Around here:
>
> ALP $ tcpip show version
>
>    HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 5
>    on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V8.3

Why is the TCP/IP Services version relevant?


> OpenVMS system analyzer
>
> SDA>  clue config
>
> [...]
>
> FFFFFFFF.8CBD4000   D0 GHA:   12 ATI Radeon 7500
>                                              FFFFFFFF.82524CB0   68

Yes, it shows up as such in there.  (Registered as "GHA:", like
above.)


> FFFFFFFF.8CBD6800   C0 EWB:   13 DEGXA-TB (Gigabit Ethernet)
> [...]
>
>
>     It's been working fine for years, possibly starting with
> VMS V7.3-2.  The (old, stale, stable) firmware for the
> XP1000:
>
>>>> show version
> version                 V5.9-1 Dec 14 2000 16:19:05

The firmware I use is V7.3-1.


> can't identify it (or the gb/s Ethernet card):
>
>>>> show config
> [...]
>   Slot   Option          Hose 0, Bus 0, PCI
>    11    NCR 53C895              pkc0.7.0.11.0           SCSI Bus ID 7
>                                  dkc0.0.0.11.0           SEAGATE
> ST336607LC
>                                  dkc100.1.0.11.0         SEAGATE
> ST336607LC
>    12    51571002/013B1002
>    13    16C714E4/601B0E11
> [...]
>
> but that's only mildly annoying to me.  Tru64 likes it, too.

Time to upgrade the firmware...?

By the way, here's my SRM output:
-----------------------[begin]-----------------------
[...]
bus 0, slot 14 -- vga -- Radeon 7500 PCI

[...]

AlphaServer DS10 466 MHz Console V7.3-1, Feb 27 2007 13:17:58
------------------------[end]------------------------


>> [...] 'garbage' output [...]
>
>     Not a particularly valuable description.

How do you mean, that it'd help for you if I described the noise
patterns...?


>     I don't know what the defaults are.  (My display says that
> it's getting 1280x1024/ 75Hz, so 75Hz may be the default
> vertical rate.)

That's an extensive DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM procedure there.
(Even though a fragment, by the looks of it.)


>> There have been many flavours of the 7500. [...]
>
>     True, and your card description is not very detailed,
> either.

How about: it works in an rx2620 and it's also properly recognized in
a DS10 within the SRM environment, but not in a DS10 under VMS.  The
card doesn't have a Compaq/DEC part number (I'm not a millionaire,
capable of spending US $ 800+ on a 10+ year-old re-badged video card).

So, you'll be looking at a non-"Mobility" type, 64 Mbyte, Radeon 7500
PCI model, with passive cooling ribs, a green PCB and a red "ATi" logo
on it.

I did recently discover the following:
-----------------------[begin]-----------------------
%LICENSE-W-NOINC, INCLUDE list must specify exactly one node for 
OPENVMS-ALPHA to be loaded

[...]

%LICENSE-E-NOAUTH, DEC OPENVMS-ALPHA use is not authorized on this node
-LICENSE-F-NOLICENSE, no license is active for this software product
-LICENSE-I-SYSMGR, please see your system manager
------------------------[end]------------------------

This seems unrelated, because I had the licenses registered the same
way as with the ELSA GLoria Synergy card and the DECW$STARTLOGIN came
up normally with out any problems.  To be sure, I reregistered some
Alpha PAKs.

In the meantime, I got an image out of the Radeon 7500, but when I
try to actually log in, it doesn't bring me anywhere and returns me
to the login/'greeter' screen.  So, that's why I think the license
issue might be related after all.

  - MG