OK, my last post sucked. Here some more and better info:
Yes, I have GRex with a BlizzardPPC rev 0. I have a Voodoo 3 in and 10 MBit network card. I don't have soundcard because I thought that only works when you have the latest firmware flashed in with the OpenPCI.device. The whole rig is stable. I can play Quake, Quake 2, and Shogo.
You must absolutely NOT use the latest firmware. This firmware supports the OpenPCI.device which is the cause of all the problems. You need the firmware before that which doesn't use OpenPCI. So you can't use any of the OpenPCI drivers.
The CyberGraphx 4.3 drivers seem not to be able to recognize correctly that no OpenPCI.device is supported and start to give all kinds of negative side effects. I needed the 4.2 beta 11 drivers to get everything working stable.
To summarise a few simple rulez:
- If you have a rev0 BlizzardPPC and you want to use a VooDoo 3 with a GRex then you can't use the firmware with OpenPCI support. You need the one before that.
- If you use the previous firmware you can't use the 4.3 CyberGraphx drivers. These drivers seem not be able differentiate properly between the firmware with OpenPCI and without OpenPCI. You need the 4.2 release. The beta 11 was the latest.
- If you have a BVisionPPC and you want to use the 4.3 CyberGraphx drivers you need the latest firmware with OpenPCI support. I had my BlizzardPPC upgraded in France from a 040 to a 060 and it didn't work properly when it got back. MagicMenu would lockup the system when I wanted to see the menu and so did 3D games. I flashed to the latest BIOS and it worked.
To be honestly; Frank Mariak and Ralph Schmidt and everyone else involved with Cybergraphx and the firmware {bleep}edup the latest releases of both their products. Don't ask for support because neither is interrested in fixing this problem. This rev2 crap was the biggest mistake they ever made.
On a side note; I have a Voodoo 3500 TV which wouldn't work in my modern AGP 4 supported AthlonXP motherboard. I found a BIOS on the internet that changed the timings of the card. I flashed it in the Voodoo 3500 and it has worked ever since. Maybe there is a BIOS outthere for PCI voodoo cards that change the timings. If I remember correctly the rev0 problem was a timing problem and only with the Voodoo-3. I might buy another PCI Voodoo card and start testing some of that stuff if I am able to find such a BIOS.
