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Can somebody provide me a list of supported gfx cards on this machine on Tru64? Are there any PC cards which working in this box?

Thanks in advance,
Indyboy

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I suggest you start looking here:

http://www.tru64.org/pages.php?page=Hardware

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The URL is very helpful, thanks a lot!!!

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Off the top of my head for non-DEC cards I can recommend S3 Trio64V+ (works in every PCI Alpha I've tried them in) and almost any Permedia2 card (Elsa GLoria, some Creative Graphics Blasters). Permedia3 cards are supposed to work OK, too, but they're harder to come by.

Note that your system is a EV56 so the Radeon 7ks won't work in it . I have the same problem, and fortunately discovered this before spending money on a PCI Radeon.

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I have used a vanilla PCI Radeon 7500 sans any issues with both OpenVMS and Tru64 on an Alpha DS20

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While some EV56 platforms may have problems due to their SRM being too old atleast the PWS (Miata) is known to have an SRM that works with many (most?) generic Radeon 7x00 PCI boards.

I've had a Sapphire Radeon 7000 in my PWS433a for years and it works just fine.

-tgc

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I can confirm that. I use Radeon 7500 on my AlphaPC 164LX, but on Alphastation 500 the same card will not work.

Matrox Millenium cards should also work well.

Matrox cards aren't supported under DEC OSes as anything other than a dumb 640x480x4 framebuffer. I'm pretty sure that they work with SRM, but once the system boots they're not too good (I've got one of those on the pile of cards I've tried with the AlphaServer).

They work well with Linux Alpha, though.

What's the SRM date in your machine? I wonder if a Radeon will work in a 1000A 5/333.

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I don't have any Alpha atm but was offered a PWS500au with 500MHz CPU, 256MiB memory, 9GiB with non-working gfx card. What do you think how much is it worth?

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PWS500au are 'OK' models, but what you really want is the last iteration of those boxes which were the XP1000 workstation.
Other options are the more modern XP900/DS10 models which sport EV6/EV67-class CPUs.

If it wasn't so much trouble with taking machines home from work (paper-issues), cleaning/testing, packing and shipping them, I could offload *several* XP900's we have in storage at work.
Heck, we've got atleast 40 of them which looks like they're going for the recycler some day or another...

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Damn, it'd be great to have one of them So what is your guess for the pws500au price?

Thanks a lot.

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I have a PWS433 with 768MB RAM, a Radeon 7x00, and the biggest L3 cache option (2MB or 4MB, dunno).

I don't know what these things fetch these days, but I'm open to offers.

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The last 500au I saw on eBay.de (in the last week or so) went for about 80€. XP1000's (again on eBay.de) go for much more. Typically €250-€500+ depending on configuration and bidding competition.

@ramq
Is it not possible to save any of those 40 machines from going to the recycler? In terms of RISC boxes, Alphas are quite rare in Europe. This ranks up there with that mass SGI slaughter in America that Ian once mentioned.

Well, I guess it is. I'll really have to think about this a couple of times, but maybe it's doable.

I didn't know they were that rare in Europe? And we hade about 150+ of'em at some point in time...

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I am not really referring to how many were sold originally. More that the number of Alphas appearing on european eBay sites has always seemed far fewer than the number of SGIs or Suns or RS6000s. I've no idea why. Even over here, DEC/Compaq was very popular brand, yet they just don't seem to appear on the 2nd hand market locally - I've currently only got a rackmount server, and I had to get that from the US.