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

[Steven Schweda]

> Why is the TCP/IP Services version relevant?

   It's not, but for some reason, the command I really want
seems not to have been implemented:

ALP $ show version
%DCL-W-IVKEYW, unrecognized keyword - check validity and spelling
 \VERSION\

> By the way, here's my SRM output:
> [...]

   Ok, go ahead.  Lord it over me, the way your modern DS10
firmware can recognize an ATI Radeon card, while my old,
stagnant XP1000 firmware can't.

> >     Not a particularly valuable description.

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

   Well, even "noise patterns" says more than "'garbage'
output" said.  With my weak psychic powers, I can't see what
you see, so my ability to analyze what's on your display is
very limited.

> [...] My display says that it's getting 1280x1024/ 75Hz, [...]

Can your display tell you anything about the signal it's
getting?  (Digital or analog?)

> (I'm not a millionaire, [...]

   I'd bet that my budget's smaller than yours (if I could
afford to bet).  All my Radeon cards are Ebay bargains, but I
did get them a while ago.  ($35 in MAR-2006, $31 in NOV-2006,
$23 in NOV-2007, $12 in APR-2009, $15 in OCT-2009.)

> So, you'll be looking at [...]

   If you could find a matching picture on Ebay (or
somewhere), then I might be able to tell you if mine look
like that.

> I did recently discover the following:
> [...]

   Looks more like you changed from non-clustered to
clustered, which causes VMS to get all fussy
(%LICENSE-W-NOINC).

      @ SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE.COM

Look for "5. MODIFY an existing Product Authorization Key".

> [...] So, that's why I think the license
> issue might be related after all.

   I'd expect a license problem to wreck a login, but not to
affect the low-level graphics behavior.