On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 06:03 +0000, Jordan Bettis wrote: > Hi everyone. > <snip> > Now, I use dual-head so I figured I would install a video card in one > of the PCI slots so I could attach my second monitor. I chose an ATI > Rage 128 that I had, figuring that while it doesn't have a Sun > framebuffer bios, that shouldn't prevent it from working with X. FWIW... I ran an UltraAXi board (similar to an Ultra 5) with dual head using a pair of sun ATi Mach 64 cards with OpenBoot firmware. I tried but don't recall ever suceeding using an ATI Mach 64 card with a PC BIOS. Although 'in theory' it should be workable, it actually trashed the OpebBoot set up on the motherboad; requiring a hefty reset. I got slightly further using old Matrox Millenium cards (which had a toggle switch so they didn't need intialisation from a BIOS); multiple of these were recognised but IIRC I didn't quite get the framebuffer driver for them in the kernel working. Anyway, YMMV but using non Sun graphics cards is tricky; it should work but there seem to be lots of little oddities that need to be ironed out; requiring a knowledge of the hardware, kernel and X. Good luck.
Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]