[Apolgies for the big CC -- I have no idea who's subscribed to which lists. I'm reading this via <255270@bugs.debian.org>.] On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:48:54PM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:43:06AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > >>Could someone with an amd64, ia64 or alpha (I'll take care of i386) > >>and a 3Dfx card with any of the following chipsets: > >> > >> Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 > > I put a PCI voodoo 3 in this ia64 box (HP zx6000) and it failed (hard - > the BIOS hung). I very much doubt the other voodoo cards would work, > unless they have firmware that _doesn't_ set the "I'm a VGA card" PCI bits. > > Anyhow, let this be a warning to anyone else crazy enough to try.... I wonder if it would be possible to run such a card as the secondary card. Or would the problem you describe happen anyway, even with an IA64(EFI?)-friendly video card also in the machine? -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have branden@debian.org | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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