* PCI VGA card info
@ 2004-09-16 15:54 Keath Milligan
2004-09-16 16:24 ` Dan Malek
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From: Keath Milligan @ 2004-09-16 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux MIPS
Does anyone have (recent) links or info on getting standard VGA cards to
work with Linux/MIPS?
I'm working with an Alchemy DBAu1550 eval board and I'd like to get VGA
going on it somehow. The only 3.3V PCI card I have been able to find is
an old NVidia Riva. As I understand it, some VGA cards rely on the PC
BIOS to be initialized, but there was some work being done to emulate
that. All of the links I've found so far on this list and other places
no longer work.
Thanks
--
Keath Milligan
Austin, Texas
http://keathmilligan.net - News, Tech, Politics, Software
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* Re: PCI VGA card info
2004-09-16 15:54 PCI VGA card info Keath Milligan
@ 2004-09-16 16:24 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
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From: Dan Malek @ 2004-09-16 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Keath Milligan; +Cc: Linux MIPS
On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Keath Milligan wrote:
> Does anyone have (recent) links or info on getting standard VGA cards
> to work with Linux/MIPS?
The AMD/Alchemy folks have a Silicon Motion video adapter that will
work in that board. I've done the framebuffer, X-Windows runs on it.
The standard video cards are nearly impossible to use in any kind of
embedded environment. Nothing PCI is available anymore, and even
if you are able to find a way to initialize the controllers, they are
obsolete
before you get any product ready for manufacturing.
-- Dan
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2004-09-16 16:24 ` Dan Malek
@ 2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
2004-09-16 16:45 ` Pete Popov
2004-09-16 17:00 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-16 16:53 ` AW: " Ralf Rosch
2004-09-16 23:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Keath Milligan @ 2004-09-16 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux MIPS
Dan Malek wrote:
> The AMD/Alchemy folks have a Silicon Motion video adapter that will
> work in that board. I've done the framebuffer, X-Windows runs on it.
> The standard video cards are nearly impossible to use in any kind of
> embedded environment. Nothing PCI is available anymore, and even
> if you are able to find a way to initialize the controllers, they are
> obsolete
> before you get any product ready for manufacturing.
I have this card but it doesn't seem to work with a 2.6 kernel. I'm
trying to just get a console visible on it at this point, but the card
doesn't seem to be getting turned on.
--
Keath Milligan
Austin, Texas
http://keathmilligan.net - News, Tech, Politics, Software
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* Re: PCI VGA card info
2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
@ 2004-09-16 16:45 ` Pete Popov
2004-09-16 17:00 ` Dan Malek
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From: Pete Popov @ 2004-09-16 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Keath Milligan, Linux MIPS
> I have this card but it doesn't seem to work with a
> 2.6 kernel. I'm trying to just get a console visible
> on it at this point, but the card doesn't seem to
> be getting turned on.
Did you apply the 36 bit patch from my directory? 2.6
does not yet have the 36bit address support integrated
in the tree. However, the patch in my directory is not
complete yet so ioremap would work, but
io_remap_page_range which is what the vga driver would
call would not work. I have a complete patch that
we're reviewing some more before I send it to Ralf.
Note that without the 36 bit support, none of the pci
cards will work.
Pete
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* Re: PCI VGA card info
2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
2004-09-16 16:45 ` Pete Popov
@ 2004-09-16 17:00 ` Dan Malek
1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dan Malek @ 2004-09-16 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Keath Milligan; +Cc: Linux MIPS
On Sep 16, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Keath Milligan wrote:
> I have this card but it doesn't seem to work with a 2.6 kernel. I'm
> trying to just get a console visible on it at this point, but the card
> doesn't seem to be getting turned on.
Well, I've been told I'm good at turning things on :-)
Yes, it's on my list of things to update for 2.6, just haven't gotten
there yet.
-- Dan
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* AW: PCI VGA card info
2004-09-16 16:24 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
@ 2004-09-16 16:53 ` Ralf Rosch
2004-09-16 23:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Rosch @ 2004-09-16 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Malek, Keath Milligan; +Cc: Linux MIPS
I have running an Millennium G450 with an TX4937 processor.
This PCI card is running frame buffer and X-Windows.
Currently I use the card with Debian (unstable).
The card I have purchased for ?99,-- and can be obtained from
several distributors, for example: www.alternate.de
--
Ralf
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Keath Milligan wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have (recent) links or info on getting standard VGA cards
> > to work with Linux/MIPS?
>
> The AMD/Alchemy folks have a Silicon Motion video adapter that will
> work in that board. I've done the framebuffer, X-Windows runs on it.
> The standard video cards are nearly impossible to use in any kind of
> embedded environment. Nothing PCI is available anymore, and even
> if you are able to find a way to initialize the controllers, they are
> obsolete
> before you get any product ready for manufacturing.
>
>
> -- Dan
>
>
>
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* Re: PCI VGA card info
2004-09-16 16:24 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-16 16:37 ` Keath Milligan
2004-09-16 16:53 ` AW: " Ralf Rosch
@ 2004-09-16 23:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-09-17 0:43 ` Pete Popov
2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Denk @ 2004-09-16 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Malek; +Cc: Keath Milligan, Linux MIPS
In message <D9320BAE-07FC-11D9-BA3D-003065F9B7DC@embeddededge.com> you wrote:
>
> The AMD/Alchemy folks have a Silicon Motion video adapter that will
> work in that board. I've done the framebuffer, X-Windows runs on it.
> The standard video cards are nearly impossible to use in any kind of
> embedded environment. Nothing PCI is available anymore, and even
> if you are able to find a way to initialize the controllers, they are
> obsolete
The Fujitsu Coral-P is running fine on MIPS systems, for example on
the XXS3HC Device, see
http://www.mycable.de/productsshow.php?content=products&lang=en&topic=xxs3hc
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
--
Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de
Shakespeare's Law of Prototyping: (Hamlet III, iv, 156-160)
O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
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