On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:35:10PM +0100, S?ren Ils?e wrote: > The 3dfx card is the same as the PC card of the same name - 3dfx just made > mac-drivers for (some of) the 3dfx boards when were still in business. Are you sure about that? I was pretty sure that 3Dfx fabbed distinct boards for PowerMacs that didn't have a PC BIOS on them. > The 6400 is equipped with a Valkyrie chip, so I can try that one. However I > do not have a clue of what to specify as the (PCI-) address to get to this > chip instead of the 3dfx board. But I might use the mailing lists and see > what I can find out. With the fbdev driver, you shouldn't have to specify a PCI address at all. (That you *ever* have to specify one for any single-head machine appears to be a bug in XFree86's PCI bus handling on PowerPCs.) > Again thanks for your help - overall the Debian Linux has been a positive > experiment - as long as I stay with the ol' text based console interface. Well, I'm glad experience this hasn't soured you on Debian. Please do try the folks on the debian-powerpc list. They're quite helpful. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. branden@debian.org | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
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