On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:54:51 -0400 "Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However I am not entirely happy w/ this onboard card. Yep, the mach64 is pretty crappy compared to the creator3d. Also, the creator3D sits on the main CPU bus whereas the mach64 sits on PCI. > 2. Doesn't show this strange "scratches" every time anything in the > screen content changes - which is very annoying while I am > using B150's ATY Mach64 on-board card. I have no idea what is causing this, most likely inaccurate programming of the memory timing parameters. Better to ask the xfree86 lists, Marc La France is the ATI-mach64 expert there, nobody here is very knowledgable about the details of the mach64 chip. > 2. Would it be possible to get this additional PCI card in b150 > working under linux? It's XVR-500 in /proc/pci it is seen as: Unlikely to work without significant hacking of both the kernel (for console driver) and xfree86 assuming that hardware documentation exists. I believe there are not even any open source public drivers for these cards, I wouldn't waste much time on this card. Better luck you'd get with the XVR-100 which is ATI Radeon based. But even this would require a bit of work to make sure the existing Radeon kernel and xfree86 drivers work on sparc64.
