Subject: Re: graphics hardware
To: NetBSD port-sparc64 mailing list <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/23/2007 09:47:57
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 05:55:01PM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> With PCI graphics cards it's more complicated. Cards based on ATI Mach64 chips 
> should work as long as they use a Rage II or Rage Pro ( also used on U5/U10 and 
> a few other mainboards ). Cards based on Rage XL chips are untested but should 
> work, I have a Rage XL but with PC firmware so it's not very useful here.

When I have tried machfb with a Rage XL card last time, it crashed during
boot. That was on alpha and the card works fine with XFree86.

Pavel