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Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140



Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> 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.

The GXT110P is the S3-based card.  If only there were a working s3
framebuffer driver :-/



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