Subject: Re: PowerMac 8500: boot from install CD?
To: <>
From: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@rcn.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/01/2002 14:49:43
Hi,

    Where did you get the information that the 8500 and 8600 onboard video
are ATI Mach32/64s? Are you sure about this? If this is the case shouldn't
we be able to port the XF86_Mach32/64 servers to ppc? Or has Apple
rearranged registers so that this would be hopeless?

                    kevin

Xavier HUMBERT wrote:

> In message <200203011225.NAA04663@pc275.chess.nl>,
> Robert Leenheer wrote:
>
> >I'm using the internal video. Didn't get from your mail that you
> >we're using a pci video card.
>
> The point is that I do *not* use an added card. The onboard chip happens
> to be an OEM ATI Mach32 chip.
>
> The 8600, btw, has a Mac64 which doens't have support, neither.
>
> I am (and many others !) *really* interested in a X config which does
> more than 640*480*8 - preferably not on this damn slow OF console
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Xav
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