>>> Xfree86 -scanpci -vv delivers me 3 PCI devices. One is the PCI Bridge >>> (Apple Bandit) and one is an ISDN Card. >>> The third one is a "Apple Grand Station" which I expect to be the >>> graphic card (but I am not sure) I tried any availivle driver at >>> dpkg-reconfigure at the address of this device (00:16:00) but none had >>> worked. >> >> i don't know what grand central does, but it isn't the onboard video. it >> may be where PCI cards are read from, but i'm guessing. > >The gc (Grand Central Station) is the Mac equivalent of a SouthBridge >chip. It contains things like ADB, floppy, serial, and other interface >chips. The replacements for this chip in later models had names like >ohare and heathrow. Someone had a sense of humor in the hardware >department at Apple...
Anyhow, with this knowlege the name begins to make sense ;-)
