On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:34:12 -0700, Brad Boyer composed: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:27:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 15:49:18 +0200, Sancho Fock composed: > > > Well my problem(s) are, that: > > > 1. I can't find any detailed specification of the mashine's > > > graphic-card. I do only know, that it is on board. > > > 2. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 wants me (as PPC User) to specify > > > not only the driver but also the PCI Address. > > > > the driver: fbdev. the framebuffer device. which, if it is the same on a > > 7200 as it is on a 7500 (my main box :), it'll be control. but that > > doesn't really matter when you want to run X, it *dpes* matter however > > if you need to configure OpenFirmware (aka OF). > > Actually, the 7200 used platinum, which was a really simple chip. The > fbdev driver is still the correct one, tho. You cannot use the built-in > video for OF, because Apple didn't bother to write a driver for > this chipset...
yeh, i was talking about two things at once there, and got one of them off, heh. i was thinking of OF setting and X at once, cuz in OF, using nvsetenv (or setenv in OF) the output-deivce is /chaos/control (on a 7500 anyway). i was mixing the "planes", so to speak. > > > 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... > oh yeh, ok. i've seen those other names, from other people's dmesg output on the list :). thanks for the clarifications and info :) simon > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
