Voodoo4 PCI in QNX4.25

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1

Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

2

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

3

I can’t find it, that’s my problem, where do I get the patch? I looked on
quics.qnx.com, but I couldn’t find a graphics patch for 1.13.
Am I looking in the wrong place?

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

4

Oh yeah, and would it help if I upgraded to 1.14, because that shouldn’t be to
much of a problem.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

5

Hi Chris,

Actually the drivers should work with Photon 1.13. Do you have a QUICS
account? If so I can put the drivers in your QUICS directory for you
to download.

Erick.


Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Oh yeah, and would it help if I upgraded to 1.14, because that shouldn’t be to
much of a problem.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

6

I do, it’s under the name tlallen, my boss. I just tried it via ftp and it seems to
work.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Actually the drivers should work with Photon 1.13. Do you have a QUICS
account? If so I can put the drivers in your QUICS directory for you
to download.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Oh yeah, and would it help if I upgraded to 1.14, because that shouldn’t be to
much of a problem.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

7

Erick,
are you still there? Did you forget about me? :wink:
Do you need more information?

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Actually the drivers should work with Photon 1.13. Do you have a QUICS
account? If so I can put the drivers in your QUICS directory for you
to download.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Oh yeah, and would it help if I upgraded to 1.14, because that shouldn’t be to
much of a problem.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

8

Hi Chris,

Nope I remembered ya still :slight_smile:

There is an update in that quics dir for you to download. It sais 114 however
it should work fine with your 113 system. If you are concerned, upgrading to
114 is the best route.

Please let us know when you downloaded the file, so I can remove it from the
dir. To install it type “install -u {file}”

Take care.

Erick.


Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Erick,
are you still there? Did you forget about me? > :wink:
Do you need more information?

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Actually the drivers should work with Photon 1.13. Do you have a QUICS
account? If so I can put the drivers in your QUICS directory for you
to download.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Oh yeah, and would it help if I upgraded to 1.14, because that shouldn’t be to
much of a problem.

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try the latest Pg.banshee driver from the May2001 CD. Or the December
graphics patch.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Hi,
I have a serious problem, for the longest time we have been using Voodoo
cards in QNX4.25 and Photon1.13. I plan to upgrade to QNX6 in the
future, but I can’t right now. In the past I went from Banshee, to
Voodoo2, to Voodoo3 without any incident, but when I tried to use some
Voodoo4’s I couldn’t get photon to run, the Banshee driver doesn’t see
the card, and crttrap freezes the entire OS.
Is there an updated Banshee driver somewhere, anywhere that I can use.
My very job might depend on it.
Thanks in advance,

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

9

Ok, before I start running for the hills. Is there something I’m missing here?
This is what I did,
I installed the patch but then realised it installed under v1.14 dir,
so rather then mess around, I ugraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
Then I reinstalled the patch,
and then went into my /etc/config/trap folder and ran
/qnx4/graphics/trappers/banshee.trap > crt.2
and crt.2 is blank, it didn’t seem to find anything, and just to check I did this with
two cards.
Did I do this wrong? Is there something I’m missing in the equation?
I noticed that only the Pg.banshee file was updated, do I also need an updated trapper?
If so, from where?

Insanely desperate,
Chris

10

Hi Chris,

The latest banshee driver has the trapping ability built in.
banshee.trap does not trap for the Voodoo 4/5. The
patch also should have installed a new /qnx4/graphics/trappers/crttrap.list
which would have new lines for the banshee driver that look something like:

Pg.banshee -d0x121a,3 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,4 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,5 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,9 -T

The last line would be for Voodoo4/5.
This should be called automatically if you do a crttrap trap.

Erick.


Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Ok, before I start running for the hills. Is there something I’m missing here?
This is what I did,
I installed the patch but then realised it installed under v1.14 dir,
so rather then mess around, I ugraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
Then I reinstalled the patch,
and then went into my /etc/config/trap folder and ran
/qnx4/graphics/trappers/banshee.trap > crt.2
and crt.2 is blank, it didn’t seem to find anything, and just to check I did this with
two cards.
Did I do this wrong? Is there something I’m missing in the equation?
I noticed that only the Pg.banshee file was updated, do I also need an updated trapper?
If so, from where?

Insanely desperate,
Chris

11

Could I do this manually? Because when I do a crttrap QNX freeze completly, it gets stuck on
a Hydra driver I believe and then won’t do anything, not even Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Del

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

The latest banshee driver has the trapping ability built in.
banshee.trap does not trap for the Voodoo 4/5. The
patch also should have installed a new /qnx4/graphics/trappers/crttrap.list
which would have new lines for the banshee driver that look something like:

Pg.banshee -d0x121a,3 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,4 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,5 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,9 -T

The last line would be for Voodoo4/5.
This should be called automatically if you do a crttrap trap.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Ok, before I start running for the hills. Is there something I’m missing here?
This is what I did,
I installed the patch but then realised it installed under v1.14 dir,
so rather then mess around, I ugraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
Then I reinstalled the patch,
and then went into my /etc/config/trap folder and ran
/qnx4/graphics/trappers/banshee.trap > crt.2
and crt.2 is blank, it didn’t seem to find anything, and just to check I did this with
two cards.
Did I do this wrong? Is there something I’m missing in the equation?
I noticed that only the Pg.banshee file was updated, do I also need an updated trapper?
If so, from where?

Insanely desperate,
Chris

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

12

Hi Chris,

You can try this manually or you can edit your /qnx4/graphics/trappers/crttrap.list
and remove the Hydra trapper.

Erick


Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Could I do this manually? Because when I do a crttrap QNX freeze completly, it gets stuck on
a Hydra driver I believe and then won’t do anything, not even Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Del

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

The latest banshee driver has the trapping ability built in.
banshee.trap does not trap for the Voodoo 4/5. The
patch also should have installed a new /qnx4/graphics/trappers/crttrap.list
which would have new lines for the banshee driver that look something like:

Pg.banshee -d0x121a,3 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,4 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,5 -T
Pg.banshee -d0x121a,9 -T

The last line would be for Voodoo4/5.
This should be called automatically if you do a crttrap trap.

Erick.

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Ok, before I start running for the hills. Is there something I’m missing here?
This is what I did,
I installed the patch but then realised it installed under v1.14 dir,
so rather then mess around, I ugraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
Then I reinstalled the patch,
and then went into my /etc/config/trap folder and ran
/qnx4/graphics/trappers/banshee.trap > crt.2
and crt.2 is blank, it didn’t seem to find anything, and just to check I did this with
two cards.
Did I do this wrong? Is there something I’m missing in the equation?
I noticed that only the Pg.banshee file was updated, do I also need an updated trapper?
If so, from where?

Insanely desperate,
Chris

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

13

Ok, things are better then they were, I can now route the output from Pg.Banshee to my crt.2 file,
and I actually see something (Praise the lord) however, I’m still not there, because I have two
cards in the machine (both Voodoo4’s) and in my crt.2 file I only see options for one of them. Is
this normal? If so, how can I get the info for the second card?
Thanks,


Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

14

Ok, I think I figured out how to get both cards working, I copied the line starting from the
Pg.Banshee part and added on to the end, and I changed the argument “-I0” to “-I1”, please let me know
if there is a better way to do this.
But now I have a different problem. The refresh rate is pretty bad, and when I try to change it in
Photon it gets confused about the second card and crashes, at least that’s what it looks like. So my
question is, is there any way to change the refresh rate manually, like in a text file somewhere?
Thanks for all the help so far, you’ve really saved my butt.


Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

15

Hi Chris,

You can edit your trapfile (/etc/config/trap/crt.NODE) manually and add the -R
option to the drivers. For example to set the refresh rate to 70Hz:

Null.ms;Pg.Banshee -g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I0 -HNqnx/crt -R70;Pg.Banshee
-g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I1 -HNqnx/crt -R70;

Regards,

Joe

Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

Ok, I think I figured out how to get both cards working, I copied the line starting from the
Pg.Banshee part and added on to the end, and I changed the argument “-I0” to “-I1”, please let me know
if there is a better way to do this.
But now I have a different problem. The refresh rate is pretty bad, and when I try to change it in
Photon it gets confused about the second card and crashes, at least that’s what it looks like. So my
question is, is there any way to change the refresh rate manually, like in a text file somewhere?
Thanks for all the help so far, you’ve really saved my butt.



Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

16

Beautiful, thank you. I can’t tell you how appreciative I am of all your help, you saved me and the company
I work for much trouble.


Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

You can edit your trapfile (/etc/config/trap/crt.NODE) manually and add the -R
option to the drivers. For example to set the refresh rate to 70Hz:

Null.ms;Pg.Banshee -g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I0 -HNqnx/crt -R70;Pg.Banshee
-g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I1 -HNqnx/crt -R70;

Regards,

Joe

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Ok, I think I figured out how to get both cards working, I copied the line starting from the
Pg.Banshee part and added on to the end, and I changed the argument “-I0” to “-I1”, please let me know
if there is a better way to do this.
But now I have a different problem. The refresh rate is pretty bad, and when I try to change it in
Photon it gets confused about the second card and crashes, at least that’s what it looks like. So my
question is, is there any way to change the refresh rate manually, like in a text file somewhere?
Thanks for all the help so far, you’ve really saved my butt.

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

17

Damn, I thought this was over, guess I was wrong.
It didn’t work, the -R70 didn’t work. Is it possible that you have to give an exact value that the monitor
can handle? Although I tried 60 which I know should be fine, and it still didn’t change anything. The
graphics are jumpy. Is it possible this doesn’t have anything to do with the Refresh, and is more a problem
that the driver is not working properly?

Hardware Support Account wrote:

Hi Chris,

You can edit your trapfile (/etc/config/trap/crt.NODE) manually and add the -R
option to the drivers. For example to set the refresh rate to 70Hz:

Null.ms;Pg.Banshee -g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I0 -HNqnx/crt -R70;Pg.Banshee
-g1024x768x16 -d0x121a,0x9 -I1 -HNqnx/crt -R70;

Regards,

Joe

Chris Nasr <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote:
Ok, I think I figured out how to get both cards working, I copied the line starting from the
Pg.Banshee part and added on to the end, and I changed the argument “-I0” to “-I1”, please let me know
if there is a better way to do this.
But now I have a different problem. The refresh rate is pretty bad, and when I try to change it in
Photon it gets confused about the second card and crashes, at least that’s what it looks like. So my
question is, is there any way to change the refresh rate manually, like in a text file somewhere?
Thanks for all the help so far, you’ve really saved my butt.

Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

18

“Chris Nasr” <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote in message
news:3BBCD266.7EECF1D2@mechtronix.ca…

Damn, I thought this was over, guess I was wrong.
It didn’t work, the -R70 didn’t work. Is it possible that you have to give
an exact value that the monitor
can handle? Although I tried 60 which I know should be fine, and it still
didn’t change anything. The
graphics are jumpy. Is it possible this doesn’t have anything to do with
the Refresh, and is more a problem
that the driver is not working properly?

Hardware Support Account wrote:

try to use “-RL” for Low, “-RM” for Medium and “-RH” for high freq.

// wbr

19

That didn’t work either. However I am beginning to think this problem has
nothing to do with the refresh rate. The whole screen is swimmy. Erick or Joe,
do either of you know if the Pg.Banshee driver that I am using is actually been
fully tested, or is it some kind of Beta? Because I don’t think it’s the cards,
they should be more then able to take 1024x768 in 16bit colour.

ian zagorskih wrote:

“Chris Nasr” <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote in message
news:> 3BBCD266.7EECF1D2@mechtronix.ca> …
Damn, I thought this was over, guess I was wrong.
It didn’t work, the -R70 didn’t work. Is it possible that you have to give
an exact value that the monitor
can handle? Although I tried 60 which I know should be fine, and it still
didn’t change anything. The
graphics are jumpy. Is it possible this doesn’t have anything to do with
the Refresh, and is more a problem
that the driver is not working properly?

Hardware Support Account wrote:


try to use “-RL” for Low, “-RM” for Medium and “-RH” for high freq.

// wbr

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.

20

Hi Chris,

I sent you mail on this subject.

Regards,

Joe

Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:

That didn’t work either. However I am beginning to think this problem has
nothing to do with the refresh rate. The whole screen is swimmy. Erick or Joe,
do either of you know if the Pg.Banshee driver that I am using is actually been
fully tested, or is it some kind of Beta? Because I don’t think it’s the cards,
they should be more then able to take 1024x768 in 16bit colour.

ian zagorskih wrote:

“Chris Nasr” <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote in message
news:> 3BBCD266.7EECF1D2@mechtronix.ca> …
Damn, I thought this was over, guess I was wrong.
It didn’t work, the -R70 didn’t work. Is it possible that you have to give
an exact value that the monitor
can handle? Although I tried 60 which I know should be fine, and it still
didn’t change anything. The
graphics are jumpy. Is it possible this doesn’t have anything to do with
the Refresh, and is more a problem
that the driver is not working properly?

Hardware Support Account wrote:


try to use “-RL” for Low, “-RM” for Medium and “-RH” for high freq.

// wbr

–
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.