From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Earl Mitchell <earlmips@yahoo.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:45:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030408144556.E6865@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049833899.8939.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:31:40PM +0100
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:31:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 18:55, Earl Mitchell wrote:
> > Does anybody have any good reccs for PCI graphcis cards I can use with
> > Malta board running linux? Some linux device drivers assume x86. If
> > you know some PCI cards that work with linux/mips on malta let me know
> > (especially nVidia or ATI cards). Also any PCI sound cards that work
> > too.
>
> Nvidia and ATI cards require you run the BIOS firmware to boot them.
> XFree86 can do that for the ATI at least. If you just need to ram
> something into a box so you can see what is going up I'd suggest
> getting an old voodoo1/voodoo2 off ebay. They report as multimedia
> devices and the current kernel fb driver can bootstrap them from
> cold on little or big endian systems with no bios support (tested
> on parisc, x86 etc)
>
When I played with voodoo cards, I needed a different voodoo driver
for fb to work. See http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/.
But that patch is very outdated. Last time when I tried with
recent 2.4 kernels, it was seriously broken.
The old faithful Matrox Millennium cards still work fine.
Steve Longerbeam has made ATI xpert98 working with non-i386 machines.
You can poke him for the patch.
Jun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-08 17:55 pci graphics card for malta running linux Earl Mitchell
2003-04-08 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-08 21:45 ` Jun Sun [this message]
2003-04-09 11:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-09 1:30 ` Fuxin Zhang
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