On Thursday 08 February 2007, Max Grabert wrote: > On 07/02/07, Michael Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have my old J5600 recompiled and running with 2.6.19.1 kernel. I put > > an old Voodoo3 2000 rev 1 in the secondary pci slot and it is recognized > > by the system (not compiled in the kernel just lspci). Is there any > > trick to getting it to work with linux in the J5600 before I waste time > > trying? > > > At one time I was trying to use a Voodoo3 3000 in a C3000, but I was > unsuccessful (linux fb wouldn't initialise/turn on the display, and > the native XFree86 driver would crash the machine). > That was about 2 years ago I think, and some things have changed since > then ... you might even be successful today. Just try and find out :-)
I think you will fail. If I remember correctly Vodoo3 needs the on-board i386 Graphics-BIOS to get into a useful state which can be used by vodoo fbdev driver. Vodoo1 or Vodoo2 do work as framebuffer devices though. Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
