> > It seems to me that an AGP card might be a better option. The C8000 manual > indicates that > it has one AGP 8X Pro 110W 32-bit slot. It looks from connector pinout in > the Technical Reference > Guide that the C8000 has a AGP 1.5V motherboard (pins 9, 16, 25 and 28 are > VCC 1.5). > > The HP "supported" FireGL cards are 1.5V, 0.8V: > http://www.synthmind.com/737-18872ATIAGPGraphicsCards-AGPComplianceDetails.pdf > > So, I think one needs to look for a 1.5V or Universal AGP card. The first > ATI AGP card to > support 1.%V appears to be RAGE 128 PRO. > > These articles give info about AGP slots and what works electrically: > http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port Very interesting and useful info, but they don't help us to fix the basic issue. We have several AGP cards able to work correctly BUT in passive frame buffer only mode, therefore the c8000, a quite fast quad core workstation , with X11, looks like a bradypus instead that a velociraptor. This is the moment to recompile a custom kernel with some printk. Simone Mannori - ITALY -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
