On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:31:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 18:55, Earl Mitchell wrote: > > Does anybody have any good reccs for PCI graphcis cards I can use with > > Malta board running linux? Some linux device drivers assume x86. If > > you know some PCI cards that work with linux/mips on malta let me know > > (especially nVidia or ATI cards). Also any PCI sound cards that work > > too. > > Nvidia and ATI cards require you run the BIOS firmware to boot them. > XFree86 can do that for the ATI at least. If you just need to ram > something into a box so you can see what is going up I'd suggest > getting an old voodoo1/voodoo2 off ebay. They report as multimedia > devices and the current kernel fb driver can bootstrap them from > cold on little or big endian systems with no bios support (tested > on parisc, x86 etc) > When I played with voodoo cards, I needed a different voodoo driver for fb to work. See http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/. But that patch is very outdated. Last time when I tried with recent 2.4 kernels, it was seriously broken. The old faithful Matrox Millennium cards still work fine. Steve Longerbeam has made ATI xpert98 working with non-i386 machines. You can poke him for the patch. Jun
