Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote:
I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible
to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities
which would prevent it from working ?
Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC only the tdfx
driver(s) can initialize a card from the ground up, for others you
should pick a 'Mac' card. Do you have any particular card(s) in mind?
Is that with the framebuffer or X tdfx driver? And which kernel?
I have some code that patches the tdfxfb so it initializes from scratch
(thanks to Adam Kowalczyk), and I've been told the matroxfb does the
same. The only problem is I don't have a Matrox PCI card, and the only
Voodoo I have is a card that makes my RS/6k cough up blood and splutter
about not being able to map resources on the PCI bus. As soon as the
card get's initialized, it dies horribly. But I didn't think the tdfx
driver ever got fixed upstream?
Of course, with older kernels (2.4.12 or something?) it died while
_scanning_ the PCI bus, didn't even have to try and use the card. So
it's getting there. But having hardware that plain doesn't work properly
(the onboard E15 graphics card is SO badly supported by Linux it almost
makes me cry) is a real pain.
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