From: Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Earl Mitchell <earlmips@yahoo.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:30:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9377A8.4050407@ict.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049833899.8939.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
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
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-09 1:30 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
2003-04-09 11:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-09 1:30 ` Fuxin Zhang [this message]
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