On Sunday 18 August 2002 17:12, you wrote: > If this Diamond card is a "PC" card (a card with PC VGA BIOS and not "mac" > OpenFirmware ROM), then you cannot use this in your Mac. Your firmware > will not know how to enable the card so no matter what XFree86 does, it > will fail to initialize the card because it was never POST(ed). the card is recognised by my linux system output /proc/pci/ gives me all the specs but i dont know if that means that the card should function. could i check this by using a simple driver say vga and see if this will give at least some output??
The Mac > does not support ISA memory space so using int10-style soft-booting will > not work. The only method I can see to bring up a PC card on a Mac > (though I have not yet tried this) is to use a PC and dump a VGA BIOS > image and then emulate that image on the Mac (hacking it into int10 > perhaps, which will use x86emu). sounds oke i have acces to a win system. Do you have a link to a howto page for this procedure?? > > However, if for some reason your Diamond card does indeed have an OF rom > and will powerup, you will just need to add support for your ramdac (which > should be trivial as most all of the IBMRGB 52x's are the same except the > 528), and then I'll add the proper endian register bits to the driver. oke seems a bit less trivial to me but if there is an howto page .... > > > ani thanks for the help Thomas > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote: > > hi all > > i have a diamond stealth 64 vram with an IBM RGB526CF ramdac chip > > i try to run this on an ppc oldworld g3 with xfree4.2.0 > > xfree4.2.0 status pages says > > > > Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, Trio32, > > Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and PLATO/PX > > is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using the IBM RGB > > 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC chip are > > supported). Support > > > > my card has the 968 chip rev0 on it so the only problem could be the > > ramdac. Can i change some settings in my config file that will translate > > ramdac 524 to 526 instructions???? > > if not i have to downgrade to 3.3.6 > > 3.3.6: > > > > Support (accelerated) for the S3 911, 924, 801, 805, 928, 864, 868, 964, > > 968, Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and > > PLATO/PX is provided by the XF86_S3 server and the XF86_SVGA server with > > the s3_svga driver. Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, > > ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, > > > > the thing is that i want to run this stealth 64 together with my onboard > > ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 154) > > will i experience performance loss for my seconod card if i downgrade to > > 3.3.6???? > > > > TIA > > Thomas Geenen > > _______________________________________________ > > Xpert mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
