Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > Sven Luther said:
> > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
> > >> > Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i
> > >> > succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have another PPC
> > >> > (don't know what's inside) to install, more RS/6000-like, so all the
> > >> > feedbacks are welcome.
> > >>
> > >> From OF prompt, I could not achive anything. From the SMS (graphical)
> > >> I set netbooting and off I went. On the graphics display (IBM GXT
> > >> 250P/255P) I see the following:
> > >
> > > Any idea what this graphic card reallyu is ?
> >
> > Proprietary IBM, and won't work with Linux.
>
> Oh, ...
>
> Would probably be the same for an GXT3000P, right ?
>
> Any chance to get the specs out of IBM and writting a driver or such ?
What does `lspci' say? IIRC, some of these GXT cards are plain S3 cards.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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