But, is the FireGL based on a radeon, or somewhat compatible chipset.. or will it need totally new drivers writing from scratch.. Will the fact that closed source drivers are available from ATI impede efforts by the xfree team to write an opensource driver, even tho only a single architecture is supported.. especially considering these cards are shipped primarily for use in HP PA-RISC workstations.
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Stefan Dirsch wrote: > Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:28:26 +0100 > From: Stefan Dirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [XFree86] ATI FireGL / IBM RC1000 / GT1000 PCI > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:44:15PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But the driver on the ATI website is x86 only, as i said in the previous > > mail i`m attempting to use this in an alpha-based machine, since none of > > the x86 machines available to me have 64bit pci, and moreso they all have > > components immediately beyond the 32bit slots that prevent a 64bit card > > from fitting. > > There is no FireGL2 driver for Alpha available and it is very unlikely > that this will ever happen. Try to use vga or vesa driver. AFAIK the > board isn't even fbdev compatible. I'm not sure if vesa or fbdev makes > sense at all on Alpha. > > Best regards, > Stefan > > Public Key available > ---------------------------------------------------- > Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SuSE Linux AG > Tel: 0911-740530 Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 > FAX: +49 911 741 77 55 D-90429 Nuernberg > http://www.suse.de Germany > ---------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
