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Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5



On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:58:02PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jan 2012, at 22:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> >> I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start!
> >> 
> >> I now find myself stuck in another hole.
> >> 
> >> Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It doesn't seem to have a driver for either.
> >> 
> >> I am also totally lost with Xorg. I have hacked good ole' X11R6 with .conf files in the past but this new auto-configuring system is beyond me, I don't even know where to put a xorg.conf to get it to read it in?
> > 
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf should work.
> 
> Okay, any ideas if Xorg carries a driver that might work with either card then?

Not sure.

If the kernel console works with it as a framebuffer, then fbdev driver
for Xorg would work with that.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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