Matrox G200 corrupted BIOS

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Stelios Bounanos wrote:

> Exei tyxei se kanenan allo na ta pai3ei h G200 toy kai na doyleyei mono 
> se graphics mode (px. h o9onh de deixnei tipota kata to boot)?
> To rwtaw giati s'emena exei tyxei oyk oliges fores.
> Sthn arxh parathrhsa oti ofeilotan sto `Direct PCI access mode' alla twra
> 3nanaegine otan ekana shutdown apo thn konsola (exw VESA VGA
> graphics console support).

  Den to exo synantisi (kai edo pou ta leme tin matrox tin exo se mac kai oxi
se pc, opote douleuei den douleuei to bios den pezei rolo)

Auto pou ithela na rotiso einai giati exeis vesa framebuffer kai oxi 
to matroxfb ? Me ton matrox framebuffer h karta pigenei kateuthian
se graphics mode opote tha vlepeis ta minimata sto boot (kai tha boreis
na doulepseis se consola).
Ase pou ean exeis dio kartes (kai othones fisika) tha boreis na exeis consoles
kai stis 2 :)

Episis vivliothikes opos SDL/GGI etc exoun support gia acceleration 
ean exeis ton matroxfb, opote tha boreis na pezeis paixnidia opos  
doom/quake (h otidipote tis loki) h na trexeis to smpeg kato apo 
consola me omorfes taxitites :)

> 
> An tyxei se kanenan pantws, mhn peta3ete thn karta, h lysh einai edw:
> 
> http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm/matrox/biosrec.html
> 
> Me liges entoles sta tyfla doyleyei pali, alla einai poly spastikh ayth h
> ypo9esh, eidika otan den 3erw giati symbainei! 3erei kaneis tipota?

  To giati simvainei, apo ta manuals tis matrox pou exo gia na boreseis
na grapseis stin EEPROM prepei na kaneis arketa pragmata prin se afisi
(profanos gia prostasia) opote tyxaia (h apo programming error se driver)
einai sxedon apithano na symvainei. 
Opote einai h kapios ios stin pleura ton windows h kapio hardware provlima
stin pleura tis kartas.

> 
> Regards,
> sb.


   Kostas

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