Subject: Re: LX with "GX" chip?
To: PORT-SPARC <Port-SPARC@netbsd.org>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/24/2002 11:01:48
On Fri, Aug 23 2002 at 18:20:55 -0700, Don Yuniskis wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Don Yuniskis wrote:
> > |    I'm hacking together an LX and notice a large PGA socket
> > | bearng the label "GX" on the board.  Shall I assume this is a
[...]
> > The LX comes with a GX framebuffer as standard equipment.
> >
> > Sounds like your particular LX had it's chip liberated for something else.
> > Any GX gpu in a PGA package conceivably should work in that socket.
> 
> The source of my confusion is that the video *works* without the
> chip installed.  Leading me to guess that this is an accelerator or
No, source of the confusion is that you think the GX chip is a PGA socket.
;-)

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