AW: Running the Xserver at an Apple Workgroup Server 7250/120
>>> Xfree86 -scanpci -vv delivers me 3 PCI devices. One is the PCI
Bridge
>>> (Apple Bandit) and one is an ISDN Card.
>>> The third one is a "Apple Grand Station" which I expect to be the
>>> graphic card (but I am not sure) I tried any availivle driver at
>>> dpkg-reconfigure at the address of this device (00:16:00) but none
had
>>> worked.
>>
>> i don't know what grand central does, but it isn't the onboard video.
it
>> may be where PCI cards are read from, but i'm guessing.
>
>The gc (Grand Central Station) is the Mac equivalent of a SouthBridge
>chip. It contains things like ADB, floppy, serial, and other interface
>chips. The replacements for this chip in later models had names like
>ohare and heathrow. Someone had a sense of humor in the hardware
>department at Apple...
Anyhow, with this knowlege the name begins to make sense ;-)
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