Hello,
today my MS-9513 miniPCI VGA card arrived and I started trying to use it.
The card is identified in the /proc filesystem:
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[root@meshcube01 root]# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 39).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x40ffffff].
I/O at 0x300 [0x3ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x41000000 [0x41000fff].
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Nevertheless - it does not output any signal - which is probably / as
expected due to the missing initialization (that is done by the BIOS on
x86 systems).
Did anybody have any more practical success/experiences so far? If so:
- Did you try to use the card with the fbdev code (and with which
kernel)?
- Did somebody suceed in using an XFree X server (which?, any special
hints?)
In addition to a cross-compile environment I'm using a chrooted
Redhat/MIPS installation. It does have the development tools and
infrastructure to compile an XFree X server on my own - nevertheless, I'd
like to share/wait for the experiences that others made before I spend
more time on it right now.
Any hints are welcome!
Best regards
Ralf
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