Problem with Hercules Dynamite Power

Problem with Hercules Dynamite Power

[Henner]

Hello Plan9 users!

After the installation of the 4 diskette system, I'm now trying to configure
the system. Unfortunately I have some trouble with my Hercules Dynamite VGA
card.

Up to now I used the vgadb that came with the diskette system (the updated
one from plan9.att.com) and everything seems to be okay. Because I wasn't
able to get a good color monitor, I have to use a (very) old black/white
VGA monitor (14"), until there is enough money for a better one...

But now I discovered, that my Hercules Dynamite Power 2MB PCI has a newer
ROM Version than the ones used by the AT&T folks. Because adding an entry
to vgadb seems to be easy in this case, I simply added one and start Plan9.
The system boots normally, but now I get four identical pictures on the screen.

Is there someone out there with the same firmware release, who has solved this
problem?

Here are the VGA cards board informations:

Hercules product		: Hercules Dynamite Power PCI
Model number			: D902
Bus type			: PCI
Windows accelerator chip  	: ET4000-W32p
Display memory size		: 2048K DRAM
Video BIOS Version		: 8.00N-D2h (05/31/95)
RAMDAC type(s)			: ICS 5340/5341 (PowerPort)

Monitor				: 31.5 KHz, b&w

And here is my vgadb entry:
ctlr
        0xC0184="Hercules PCI Bus Dynamite(tm) BIOS. Ver. 8.00N-D2h(05/31/95)"
        0xC0076="Tseng Laboratories, Inc. 07/25/94 V8.00N"
        link=vga
        ramdac=ics534x-135
        ctlr=et4000-w32p
        hwgc=et4000hwgc


Thank you very much for your help!

Tschuess,

	Henner
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Problem with Hercules Dynamite Power

[jmk]

These are the Hercules entries I have. They all work as far as I know.

ctlr
	0xC0189="Hercules ISA Bus Dynamite(tm) BIOS. Ver. 8.00N-A2b(04/29/94)"
	link=vga
	clock=ics2494-304
	ramdac=att20c491-90					# really a MUSIC MU9C4910
	ctlr=et4000-w32i
	hwgc=et4000hwgc
ctlr
	0xC0189="Hercules PCI Bus Dynamite(tm) BIOS. Ver. 8.00N-B1a(03/30/94)"
	link=vga
	clock=ics2494-324
	ramdac=stg1702-135
	ctlr=et4000-w32p
	hwgc=et4000hwgc
ctlr
	0xC0189="Hercules PCI Bus Dynamite(tm) BIOS. Ver. 8.00N-D2g(11/28/94)"
	0xC01AD="Ver. 8.00N-D2h(05/31/95)"
	0xC0076="Tseng Laboratories, Inc. 06/28/94 V1.0CN"	# Cardex Challenger
	link=vga
	ramdac=ics534x-135
	ctlr=et4000-w32p
	hwgc=et4000hwgc

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Hello Plan9 users!

After the installation of the 4 diskette system, I'm now trying to configure
the system. Unfortunately I have some trouble with my Hercules Dynamite VGA
card.

Up to now I used the vgadb that came with the diskette system (the updated
one from plan9.att.com) and everything seems to be okay. Because I wasn't
able to get a good color monitor, I have to use a (very) old black/white
VGA monitor (14"), until there is enough money for a better one...

But now I discovered, that my Hercules Dynamite Power 2MB PCI has a newer
ROM Version than the ones used by the AT&T folks. Because adding an entry
to vgadb seems to be easy in this case, I simply added one and start Plan9.
The system boots normally, but now I get four identical pictures on the screen.

Is there someone out there with the same firmware release, who has solved this
problem?

Here are the VGA cards board informations:

Hercules product		: Hercules Dynamite Power PCI
Model number			: D902
Bus type			: PCI
Windows accelerator chip  	: ET4000-W32p
Display memory size		: 2048K DRAM
Video BIOS Version		: 8.00N-D2h (05/31/95)
RAMDAC type(s)			: ICS 5340/5341 (PowerPort)

Monitor				: 31.5 KHz, b&w

And here is my vgadb entry:
ctlr
        0xC0184="Hercules PCI Bus Dynamite(tm) BIOS. Ver. 8.00N-D2h(05/31/95)"
        0xC0076="Tseng Laboratories, Inc. 07/25/94 V8.00N"
        link=vga
        ramdac=ics534x-135
        ctlr=et4000-w32p
        hwgc=et4000hwgc


Thank you very much for your help!

Tschuess,

	Henner
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Henner Gratz                                 Email:       a82@lrw.uni-bremen.de
Leeuwarder Str. 16A                          Fax (at home): +49-(0)421-58 52 10
D-28259 Bremen                               Tel (at home): +49-(0)421-58 51 84
GERMANY
 
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