From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: David Given , Subject: Re: iMac / ATI Rage 128 Pro TR Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:26:48 +0100 Message-Id: <20011214132648.25744@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >We've just replaced our elderly PowerMac 8200/120 with a nice iMac. Ten times >the memory, five times the processor speed, twenty times the disk space, and >a tiny fraction of the grief. > >Unfortunately, it uses a rather odd video card, a Rage Pro TR (id 1002.5452). >The kernel does not support this, so I'm stuck with the Open Firmware driver >at 800x600x8. I've tried modifying the kernel so that it's treated as any >other Rage Pro, but the kernel seg faults. > >Now, the reason why I'm posting here is that the Debian kernel I originally >booted from *did* support it. It claimed to be 2.2.0-pmac. Does anyone know >if an equivalent patch is available for a 2.4-series kernel (which we have to >use for development reasons)? Alternatively, is there anywhere I haven't >found yet that I should be looking? > >(Oh, yes. And does anyone know how to work out what revision an iMac is? It's >dark blue with a CDROM, if that's any help.) Are you sure this isn't a Rage 128 Pro ? It's driven by aty128fb Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/