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Re: Video for Linux on Beige G3 tower



On  31 Aug, this message from Mark Jaroski echoed through cyberspace:
> Michel Lanners wrote:
>> Send along the output of 'lspci'.
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
> 00:0f.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device 5802 (rev 10)
> 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
> 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)

Mhh....

> I found some documentation at apple that suggests it uses a
> Philips saa7110 chipset, but I don't see that here, so..

That chip is probably not PCI... have a look at the GATOS project and
their drivers (try it on XF4.1.0, and apply the PPC and endianess
patches that have been discussed here lately):

http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos

That might support the SAA7110 hanging off the ATI chip.

Michel

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