From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailgate.sysgo.de (ns.sysgo.de [213.68.67.98]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3AB2BDA0 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:26:05 +1100 (EST) From: Gerhard Jaeger To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:45:14 +0100 References: <20041210015932.A3B692BDA0@ozlabs.org> In-Reply-To: <20041210015932.A3B692BDA0@ozlabs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200412100845.14486.g.jaeger@sysgo.com> Subject: Re: video card for Lite5200 List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, On Friday 10 December 2004 02:33, wangwenbin wrote: > Hi all >=20 > I have successfully boot Linux 2.4.22 on my Lite5200 Evaluation Board = with the ELDK. but when I want to use PCI slot for the video card,something= goes wrong. The whole board loses supply of electricity. And i take the vi= deo card out ,the board is still ok. So i change to put RTL81390 network ca= rd into PCI slot. The same thing happen. > The video card i have tried : > S3 Trio64V > Trident TGUI9680 > S3 ViRGE/DX > Then I ask the Freescale support, they tell me that these board can op= erate in 5V slot only, While the PCI slot on Lite5200 only offers 3.3V. The= se days though I search much information about vedio card. I still don't wh= ich card can fit Lite5200.And I knew that the new CoralP PCI video card can= support Lite5200. Can I get it from market? Anyway I really worry about th= is, so I turn here and ask your help.and I really appreciate your help! tha= nks a lot! (There was something wrong with my mailbox,I could not receive t= he letters these days.So I post it again)=20 > Best Regards, =20 > Tony Wang > =E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80=E3=80=80s= tcwang@163.net first of all, you need to take care of the PCI cards you use. As the Freesc= ale support and=20 also the manuals say: "Only 3.3V compliant PCI cards". In the meantime ther= e are quite a lot of burned-out boards because of "wrong" cards. Next problem with the PCI bus on this board is, that because of some timing= issues not all=20 cards will be detected, so it'll be hard to find a video card, that matches= these requirements. The only card that I know, which seems to work AND is somehow supported is = a CORAL-P evaluation=20 board from Fujitsu. But this one is rather expensive.=20 I tried also and old Nvidia Riva 128 card, which was detected correctly, bu= t is not initialized correctly by the framebuffer driver. Regards, Gerhard =2D-=20 Gerhard Jaeger =20 SYSGO AG Embedded and Real-Time Software www.sysgo.com | www.elinos.com | www.osek.de | www.imerva.com