Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card

[Andrew Gaffney]

I've done a number of tests with this card. I have not gotten it to give me a picture on a 
regular monitor or an Apple monitor (has ports for both). In Linux, it shows up when I do 
scanpci, but it does not show up in the BIOS's PCI device list. The computer will boot 
with just this card in, but it will not boot without a video card. This makes absolutely 
not sense to me. As for flashing the card BIOS, how would I go about that?

Joel Wright wrote:
You could try flashing the bios of the card to the corresponding pc
version. Other than that the cards SHOULD be the same, obviously though,
flashing the bios of a graphics card can be dangerous, and I can't
guarantee it'll work.
Joel.

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:00, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

I pulled the following card from my PowerMac:

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x4754
 ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT]
 CardVendor 0x0000 card 0x0000
  STATUS    0x0280  COMMAND 0x0080
  CLASS     0x03 0x00 0x00  REVISION 0x41
  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x20  CACHE 0x08
  APBASE    0xda000000  addr 0xda000000
  BLOCKIO   0x0000bc01  addr 0x0000bc00
  REGBASE   0xdc000000  addr 0xdc000000
  MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x08  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x0b
Since I don't have the space to setup my Mac anymore, I'm stealing the video card from it 
to use in my x86 box for a dual-head setup. The problem is that whenever X tries to 
configure it, I get the error:

(EE) ATI(0): Cannot read V_BIOS

Does this mean that the card does not work or that it is just not compatible with anything 
other than a Mac?


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