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I checked at www.iomagic.com and the 3d/ep does use a Permedia 2 chip
set. I had a Diamond Fire Pro 1000 in my last PC that also used a
Permedia 2. SuSE and Elisa developed the XFree86 driver for that chip
set. You might need to get the RPM off of your install CD but if you
have Mandrake 5.3 or 6.0 it will be there. I am on my windows
notebook so I can't look up the RPM name, email me if you need it.
Just select a Diamond Fire 1000 and it should work for you.
- From looking at the manual for the card on the web site they are just
using the referance driver as shipped by 3DLabs for Windows so they
aren't doing anything tricky with the hardware. You should also check
www.3dlabs.com to be sure that you have the current referance driver
for Windows. I/O Magic doesn't put a lot of effort in on their
hardware. They sell on price not added value.
PBen
At 11:28 AM 9/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>>As for the I/O Magic video card, any idea what chipset it uses?
>
>It uses the PERMEDIA 2 chipset. I tried a couple of pre-defined
cards with
>PERMEDIA 2, but was unsure which accellerated x server to run. Even
tried to
>manually configure the card. Regardless, after typing startx, KDE
would come up
>at approx. 300 x (some small #) resolution whereas just the
"Taskbar" would
>take up half the screen, or worse nothing would come up and I would
have to
>re-boot.
>
>>> Might be able to get it to work by using a different
>X-server, or using the Frame Buffer device instead, from
>what one of the guys at Mandrakesoft says... :-)
>
>Don't recall seeing anything about Frame Buffer Device. What is it?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Bryan
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