From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:46:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:7672 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:46:10 +0100 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h38Ljub21667; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:45:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:45:56 -0700 From: Jun Sun To: Alan Cox Cc: Earl Mitchell , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com Subject: Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux Message-ID: <20030408144556.E6865@mvista.com> References: <20030408175517.66121.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> <1049833899.8939.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1946 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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 But that patch is very outdated.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