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Hi, a couple of weeks ago i bought a Indigo 2 Impact just for the fun.
After some searching on internet i managed to install "IRIX 5.3 All Impact" on the machine and tried to get to the login screen.

The login screen however does not appear as i get a black screen after IRIX starts up(the screen works just fine before IRIX starts).
After some googling i managed to start IRIX without starting x, so to console as in single user mode.

When i run /usr/gfx/gfxinit the screen goes blank but the rest of the system runs just fine(i can still telnet for example).
gfxinfo gives a ? for the revision of GE11 (GE11 rev ?).

So my question is, is the graphics card broken or am i doing something wrong in IRIX?

Thanks

Aha my Indigo 2 is indeed a 250Mhz version, but the system runs just fine exept for the graphics card.
Also i have narrowed it down (i think) to ucode loading of the GE11 as gfxinit gives an error on loading its code.
Should i install a different version of IRIX and if so which version?

Hi dexter1,

I will try to find a copy of 6.2 as i only have 96MB of ram.
I there any way to start the X server without initializing the graphics board? i tried to startx without gfxinit but could not find a way.

This is the output of hinv -v running from IRIX 5.3:

IRIS 1% hinv -v
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0
1 250 MHZ IP22 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Main memory size: 96 Mbytes
EISA bus: adapter 0
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
CDROM: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Tape drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0: DAT
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Graphics board: Solid Impact

b.t.w. i am indeed from The Netherlands.

Is it possible to put a XZ graphics card in a Indigo 2 Impact model?
My Solid Impact card is most likely broken (only frame buffer working) so i like to replace it.

I have a 250Mhz processor model, will the prom and IRIX 5.3 accept the XZ card?

Thanks

Thanks for the responses.
As my X window system can't start i can't use swmgr, so i have to use inst for getting the ucode?
Also do i really need to load the ucode for the X window system to start, or is there any workaround?

I have installed IRIX 5.3 All Indigo2 IMPACT on my system, the normal IRIX 5.3 install CD does indeed not boot on my system(sashARCS works but unix.IP22 hangs). So that should just be fine? Sadly i don't have IRIX 6.2, and can't find it on the web either.

I found the patch but am having trouble installing anything other than the original cd's (which don't contain the patch).
When i try to install a tardist with inst -f foor.tardist or the unpacked tardist with inst -f ./ i get errors.
What am i doing wrong?

I just succeeded with installing patchSG0002605, i used tftp and only 16MB was copied, the patches set i wanted to copy was 108MB so i burned it to a cd and was able to install it. What does it fix? my Impact card still gives the following error:

./gfxinit -v
mgras_init: Loading HQ3 ucode from /usr/gfx/ucode/hq3_revB.bin
Downloading HQ3 ucode from /usr/gfx/ucode/hq3_revB.bin (20480 bytes)
mgras_init: Loading GE11 ucode from /usr/gfx/ucode/ge11_revB.bin
Downloading GE11 ucode from /usr/gfx/ucode/ge11_revB.bin (712704 bytes = 59392 lines)
gfxinit: GFX_DOWNLOAD failed

I am also still not able to install tardist file from for example http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/ as i get the following error:

Inst> install all
Reading installation history .. 100% Done.
Reading distribution .. 100% Done.
Checking dependencies .. 100% Done.
Calculating sizes .. 100% Done.

Inst> go
Pre-installation check .. 100% Done.
Installing/removing software .. 0%
Upgrading selected tgc_nedit.man subsystems
Installing/removing software .. 5%
ERROR : An error occurred while Upgrading selected tgc_nedit.man subsystems
After extracting the file /usr/tgcware/man/cat1/nedit.1.z, its contents appear
to be
incorrect according to the index in the distribution. The size is 7570 and the
checksum is 16403 (expected 7570 and 55328). The file is located at offset
0x1484 of archive ./tgc_nedit.man.

But untarring also gives a error so maybe the programs from that site need some newer versions of tar and inst?