On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:37:57PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:54:16 +0000, "The Fungi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said: > > Well, *finding* a low-power, 3.3V-only, 32-bit, PCI video card could > > be a bit of challenge. There have been some list posts in the past > > about using Soekris boards with USB video devices, however, which > > could be a much easier solution. > > ... does it need to be 3.3v only? I found a 32-bit 3.3v/5.0v card which > I've put in and it doesn't seem to have smoked the net5501 at all ... > the NetBSD 4.0 GENERIC recognises it but can't drive it, so that's > hopeful at least ...
You need to run it to be sure about the power consumption. I've done a few 4801 with Matrox G450 cards. The BIOS doesn't initialize the card as VGA/textmode, so it is useless for console. X11 was picky about the uninitialized card as well - I needed to use the mga_hal to get it running. Once X11 started the box rebootet because of power problems, which I solved by using a 5V supply directly to the board. Without the card setup I have had no power problem. I'm not sure if it would work in textmode, since I'm just running X11. > For the record, the card is labelled as an ATI, which the kernel thinks > is: > > ATI Technologies Radeon 7000/VE QY (VGA display) at pci0 dev 14 function > 0 not configured > > although why NetBSD GENERIC doesn't include support for this I don't > know ... I don't know about NetBSD, but my assumption is that this is because the card isn't setup to emulate a standard VGA, so the system ignores is. At least FreeBSD's syscons seems to be limited to cards, which are setup at usual ISA addresses - there are/were a few exceptions with DEC cards used in alpha systems. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
