RE: powerstorm 4d40t support.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciej Matysiak [mailto:phoner.debian@blah.pl]
>
> hello,
>
> i've just installed debian on my newly purchased toy - the
> digital alpha
> personal workstation 600au (it just appeared to be the
> cheapest reasonable
> alternative to i386 hardware :)). so, now i have decent
> hardware and system.
>
> but, after some googling and browsing through various
> documents, i can see
> that there's almost no support for the graphic card i have in
> that box - quite
> impressively looking [1] one: the intergraph powerstorm
> 4d40t. it's based on
> cirrus logic gd5440 chip
Only for console VGA mode. The rest is Intergraph proprietary.
There are no Linux drivers for this card, not even on X86. Intergraph never released any drivers or technical specs to allow drivers to be written.
There are drivers for Tru64 UNIX or NT 4.0 on Alpha (or x86).
As others said, for Linux you are best off getting another card like a Matrox or a Permedia 2 or maybe an ATI Radeon.
Sorry.
Jeff D
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