Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote:I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible to simply pick a "PC" card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities which would prevent it from working ?Not hardware per se, but the firmware is a problem. IIRC only the tdfx driver(s) can initialize a card from the ground up, for others you should pick a 'Mac' card. Do you have any particular card(s) in mind?
Is that with the framebuffer or X tdfx driver? And which kernel?I have some code that patches the tdfxfb so it initializes from scratch (thanks to Adam Kowalczyk), and I've been told the matroxfb does the same. The only problem is I don't have a Matrox PCI card, and the only Voodoo I have is a card that makes my RS/6k cough up blood and splutter about not being able to map resources on the PCI bus. As soon as the card get's initialized, it dies horribly. But I didn't think the tdfx driver ever got fixed upstream?
Of course, with older kernels (2.4.12 or something?) it died while _scanning_ the PCI bus, didn't even have to try and use the card. So it's getting there. But having hardware that plain doesn't work properly (the onboard E15 graphics card is SO badly supported by Linux it almost makes me cry) is a real pain.
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