> Is there, or will there, be any support for the above card... also > marketted as FireGL 2 PRO PCI or HP GL-UX..
As far as i can see on the HP homepage below of the topic "extreme 3D graphics cards" it is a HP branded card with a 64 bit PCI slot that comes with drivers for HP-UX only. I assume that board is in some way tailored to its original machine design, e.g. PA-RISC little endian, LE-Bios, etc. > Linux detects it as: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1014:0170 (IBM) (rev 2). > IRQ 28. > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa580000 [0xa59ffff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc000000 [0xfffffff]. > > It is aparrently manufactured by ATI, uses an IBM chipset.. and is > supplied on a 64bit pci card, a picture (890kb) is available at > http://www.ev6.net/card.jpg Link is not working for me, according to yourvote.com it is an IBM chip. sub-vendor/sub-device would be quite interesting if set. right now i dont know who has really built that and on whichever design he based his layout. It looks somewhat similar to a FireGL 2 board, but it has some obvious differences as well. To all my knowledge there are not even Windows drivers for that board, at least i never heared of someone doing such development works for it. I must assume HP did design those drivers for HP-UX on their own, maybe they just used parts of the IBM-AIX drivers for a startup. *blink* As of now FireGL Linux drivers for the IBM based adapters are only availabel for Linux/x86. I do not expect that to change in any way because this is no longer a "hot" product. Its funny, i have seen experimental machines with x86 CPUs since about 4 years but i have never got a matching graphics boards to my hands for plugging it into there. All most recent were AGP or AGP-PRO based designs. > I hear conflicting things, some people tell me this card is Radeon > based/compatible, but the current CVS XF86 doesnt detect it > as such, would it work if it recognised the PCI ID as a radeon card? > or is it just not compatible atall? Its a grafics board that is based on an IBM asic. Its truely not a Radeon, those others are false. > The ATI-supplied binary drivers should aparrently support this card, > but the only machine i have which will take this card at all is an > Alpha, and thus wont run the x86 binaries supplied by ATI. My 2nd best guess would be - leave it in the original box and run HP-UX with it. As others did already write, IBM has not released any asic specs. My #1 guess would be - trade it to someone who needs it, those boards are getting rarer day by day (=> you can get _much_ money from a suddenly frozen HP-UX user) and buy some mainstram "8500" "Radeon 9500 Pro" or higher. At least I assume an "AGP speed 4x/8x @ 32 bit" card might operate faster than a "PCI speed 1x @ 64 bit". -Alex. PS: not speaking for my copmany, i were just curios myselves about that device. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
