pci graphics card for malta running linux

pci graphics card for malta running linux

[Earl Mitchell]

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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. 

thanks

-earlm



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Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux

[Alan Cox]

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)

Not bad for <$10 a card although nobody has made Glide work big endian
so you can do 3D yet 8)

Alan

Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux

[Jun Sun]

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

Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 22:45, Jun Sun wrote:
> > 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/.

tdfx is voodoo3, sstfb is voodoo1/2

Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux

[Fuxin Zhang]

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. 
>>    
>>
we managed to use x86emu to run bios firmware on a mips board,the cards we
tried including nvidia riva TNT2(?) and ATI Rage Pro and some old S3 too.
If you want i can give your the code. It is expected to run both in 
pmon,kernel
and user space(probably some hardware related tweak needed),though i 
have never
got enough time to make things perfect.

>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)
>
>Not bad for <$10 a card although nobody has made Glide work big endian
>so you can do 3D yet 8)
>
>Alan
>
>
>
>
>  
>