On the 13th of September 2003 at 19:19, Kelledin <kelledin+DAXP#skarpsey.dyndns.org> wrote:
> First of all, to the best of my knowledge, XFree86 4.x prior to 4.3 does NOT > build its cirrus logic drivers (unless someone knows of some obscure patch > I've missed). Not sure why. I'm guessing they just weren't ported at the > time. XFree86 4.3.0, OTOH, actually builds the cirrus logic drivers. from http://xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status9.html#9 : 9. Cirrus Logic 3.3.6: Support (unaccelerated) for the 6410, 6412, 6420 and 6440 is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the cl64xx driver. Support (accelerated) for the 5420, 5422, 5424, 5426, 5428, 5429, 5430, 5434, 5436, 5446, 5480, 5462, 5464, 5465, 6205, 6215, 6225, 6235, 7541, 7542, 7543, 7548, 7555 and 7556 is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the cirrus driver. 4.3.0: Support (accelerated) for the Alpine (5430, 5434, 5436, 5446, 5480, 7548), and Laguna (5462, 5464, 5465) chips is provided by the "cirrus" driver. Summary: The following chips are supported in 3.3.6 but not in 4.3.0: 6410, 6412, 6420, 6440, 5420, 5422, 5424, 5426, 5428, 5429, 6205, 6215, 6225, 6235, 7541, 7542, 7543, 7555 and 7556. the 5440, which i need, is missing :( but please correct me, if i'm wrong (ie. the chip numbers don't have to be exact in this case, or something). > Third, that thing looks like more than just a vidcard. That's probably why > it's so huge! It's a combo card, with the Cirrus card as a stacked > daughtercard -- I see SCSI and network components on the baseboard. now, i'm really confused :) i can't say that you're wrong because i don't know that hardware (and can't find any decent description of it). and in fact there's something like scsi cable socket. i can't see anywhere any network components - what makes you think they are there? :) but, i have separate cards for network and external scsi support (the internal seems to be on the motherboard): take a look at http://babilon.org/Alpha/05.jpg, there's green card in the top right box' corner, that's the external scsi thing. and next to it there's tulip card: http://babilon.org/Alpha/12.jpg . anyone has idea what's use of those two dimm slots on that powerstorm card? (i know that i can put there memory ;) but: how much, and what would it be used for?) > I'm not sure if you can just pull off the Cirrus daugtercard and still have > the rest work--and replacing all the other stuff is liable to be a bit of a > problem. i think i can, as the network card and scsi seem to work independently from that card. if someone is really interested, i can make more (and better :)) pictures of this computer. m.m. -- use gnus, not guns!
