Re: tlug: Running X with Riva128

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Takeshi Hakamada wrote:

> Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Takeshi Hakamada wrote:
> >
> > > > > Does anybody have idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > > > If I can't run X with STB card, I immediately replace the video card.
> > > > >
> > > > > Following is my environment:
> > > > > Mother board: EPoX MVP3 based card
> > > > > CPU: K6-2 300MHz
> > > > > VIDEO: STB Velocity 128 AGP(Riva128)
> > > >
> > > > Really, I have exactly the same motherboard, CPU, and video card at home
> > > > -- works great for me (so it is possible to make it work :) )
> > > >
> > >
> > > Odd...
> > > Besides above configuration, I have installed Initio(aka Abaptek) 9200UW
> > > dual Ultra Wide SCSI card and Ensoniq Audio PCI sound card.
> > > So PnP configuration on BIOS might be something bad. I think it is worth
> > > removing these cards. I'll have a go.
> > >
> >
> > Try it.  The Riva128 *must* have an IRQ assigned to it in order to work
> > with Linux, BTW.  Make sure that your CMOS is assigning it one, and that
> > it's not conflicting with your fancy-pants SCSI and sound cards :)
> 
> I forgot to tell you that I *also* have Intel EtherExpress Pro100 100BaseT
> card. I noticed this card share IRQ 11 with Riva128. Then I suspected this
> card prevent me from running Xserver.
> After I changed PCI bus number of EtherExpress from #1 to #4, it has used
> IRQ5 and I was able to run Xserver!
> 
> However,  I still concern that IRQ5 is shared with my fancy dual channel
> SCSI and EtherExpress since IRQ sharing may cause problem like this.

Most BIOSes will let you manually assign IRQs to the different PCI slots.
Try doing that.

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