On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Fung, Casey K wrote:
> >> Attached is the /var/log/XFree86.0.log for installation of 4.4.0. I
> >> would appreciate if you can tell me what is the problem for this
> >> installation.
>
> >> <<XFree86.0.log>>
>
> > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) unknown vendor (0x1014) unknown chipset (0x0170) rev 2,
> > Mem @
> > 0xfafe0000/17, 0xf4000000/26, BIOS @ 0x80000000/18
>
> > According to the PCI data base at:
> > http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=256
> > that is an old IBM FireGL.
>
> > (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS not detected
>
> > It doesn't appear to have a vesa bios, which means the vesa
> > driver isn't likely to work.
>
> > I don't know if any drivers exist for this card. Anyone? Anyone?
>
> I thought FireGL was an ATI trademark. So it might be possible to provide
> support for this variant if ati_drv and radeon_drv were modified to recognise
> it.
>
> It's a little late to do that for 4.5 though.
>
The FireGL cards were IBM, then I think S3 bought them, then
ATI. ATI owns the trademark and probably owns the IP, but I think
that particular card has nothing in common with modern ATI cards,
architecturally speaking.
Mark.
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