On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:01:04PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> No. They won't work right now because we don't (officially) have a
> console driver for Radeon-based cards. I have a generic PCI framebuffer
> driver that should work with them ( unaccelerated though ), this /may/
> be enough to make X work. 

Aha, I didn't know that we needed a console driver for XFree86 to work - I
assumed that if the card had OFW (and could be seen by the OpenBoot PROM as
the console) and was supported by XFree86, everything would be OK.

[...]
> In all cases mentioned above the onboard firmware apparently didn't like
> the card's firmware since OF listed them by generic names ( like
> pcixx,xx instead of - say - 3Dfx,Voodoo3 or MTRX,Millennium. The
> Millennium in the PowerStack is a special case since the firmware seems
> to contain enough of a 486 emulator to allow the card's BIOS to do its
> work. It did find the IBM board though, which was never intended for
> this kind of machines so it /does/ support OF display devices ).

Aha - very interesting.

-mj
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