Re: [parisc-linux] C3000 video options

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 15 February 2004 04:36, M. Grabert wrote:
> > 2) Someone posted on the list that you could get a PCI Nvidia Voodoo2
> > card and maybe it would work, but when he tried it he got nothing except
> > corrupted nvram.  That doesn't sound very promising, but I thought I'd
> > ask.
> 
> Someone tried Voodoo2, but no success report so far.

I tested/fixed Vodoo2 and it should work with kernel 2.4 and 2.6 on HPPA.
Maximum resolution is 800x600 @16bpp though.

> Somebody had success with a ATI Rage XL graphics card and a 2.4.22 kernel
> (and a special no-bios patch). He had some colour issues 'though.
> Unfortunatelty the patch doesn't work on the 2.4.24 kernel anymore;
> I contacted the developer of this patch, and he said he's busy with some
> other things, and porting it to 2.4.24 (or even 2.6) will be low priority.

The "no-card-bios" patch is at least in kernel 2.6 and I tried it recently 
with a ATI Mach64 w/ 2MB (not XL!!). I got some crashes, but chances 
are pretty high that this could be made work.
 
Helge