oke i have been asking this question in the xfree86 mailinglist The problem seems to be that my graphics card is intel based. therefore firmware can not initialise the card (although it seems to recognize it since the information of my card comes from /proc/pci) There seems to be a way of dumping the bios of this card on an intel machine and use it to initialise the card in ppc. Is this a inteligent way to go or should i just buy a card that can be recognised by firmware. thanks Thomas Geenen
On Sunday 11 August 2002 18:33, you wrote: > dear diamond stealth 64 lovers.... > > I want to get my second graphics adapter to work. a diamond stealth 64 vram > S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0 (rev 0) ramdac chip IBM RGB526CF > I think i tracked the problem down to the fact that the s3 driver is absent > from my system. I looked around the net for the proper driver but came no > closer than XFree86-driver-s3-4.2.0-3.3.ppc.rpm > almost but not good enough since i need 4.2.0-10.3 > i installed it anyway but X died with an error message > so maybe the driver is wrong ?? > i run mandrake 8.2 ppc. My other graphics card is a build in > ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 154) > > i attached my xfree config file and the xfree log > maybe this problem is not ppc related but i thought that someone might > have had similar problems .... > > thanks for any hints in the right direction > > Thomas Geenen
