Re: Radeon 7500 cards
Jay Estabrook wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Next up for evaluation in my PWS 433au will be a non-ATI-branded Radeon 7500 by PowerColor (slogan: Best game card in the world). Jay et. al.: is there anything special about the officially blessed 3X-PBXGG-AA other than the $319 price I found at one on-line store? Only the guarantee to work with Tru64 and VMS... ;-} (...) If the SRM console can get it successfully through its BIOS emulator and into console text mode, you should be OK. It did, and I am :-). Haven't tried Xorg 7.0.X yet, but the ATI frame buffer driver successfully found the card at boot time and gave me a nice little 224-color DEC Tux with kernel version 2.6.18-rc1. Time to read the driver docs and figure out how to change the boot-up resolution. More details on this non-ATI-branded 7500, just in case anyone else can or wants to find one... It's a PowerColor RV2P-B3, although you might have better luck searching for RV2P-3. In PowerColor's nomenclature, the P is for PCI, and the 3 refers to the number of output connectors: 15-pin VGA, flat panel (24p ?), and composite video (RCA). I'm running off the 15-pin VGA connector currently. Card has 64 MB of DDR memory, and can supposedly run up to 1152x864 @ 200 Hz, 1280x1024 @ 160 Hz, up to 1920x1200 @ 120 Hz, 1920x1440 @ 100/90 Hz, and 2048x1536 @ 85 Hz -- all at 256 / 64K / 16.7M colors. I'll try Xorg 7.0.X in a few days... I have a small house interior painting project being offered as a NMI by the wife :-). -- --- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radeon 7500 cards
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Next up for evaluation in my PWS 433au will be a non-ATI-branded Radeon 7500 by PowerColor (slogan: Best game card in the world). Jay et. al.: is there anything special about the officially blessed 3X-PBXGG-AA other than the $319 price I found at one on-line store? Only the guarantee to work with Tru64 and VMS... ;-} It IS an OEM'ed card from ATI, but don't think there's anything special in the BIOS. I expect the video BIOS is fairly crucial depending on the OS, and I *have* seen the reports of problems involving non-ATI-branded cards. If the SRM console can get it successfully through its BIOS emulator and into console text mode, you should be OK. In spite of that, I'm giving the PowerColor card a try because I got it (will have it early next week) for approx. $300 less than the Compaq version :-). I've had good luck (pre Xorg 7.0) with a VisionTek 9100 (R200 chipset, which sadly appears unavailable lately), but IIRC all my 7500's are the OEM'ed version. I think some folks have had success with 9250's, but also pre-7.0. --Jay++ --- Jay A EstabrookHPTC - XC I B Hewlett-Packard Company - ZKO1-3/D-B.8 (603) 884-0301 110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua NH 03062 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Radeon 7500 cards
The SiS 6326 experiment has pretty much been a failure. Card works fine in text mode, but I miss being able to run X11. Next up for evaluation in my PWS 433au will be a non-ATI-branded Radeon 7500 by PowerColor (slogan: Best game card in the world). Jay et. al.: is there anything special about the officially blessed 3X-PBXGG-AA other than the $319 price I found at one on-line store? I expect the video BIOS is fairly crucial depending on the OS, and I *have* seen the reports of problems involving non-ATI-branded cards. In spite of that, I'm giving the PowerColor card a try because I got it (will have it early next week) for approx. $300 less than the Compaq version :-). If the non-ATI 7500 doesn't work, I may try a genuine ATI 7500 at some point, but I'll definitely go back to the TGA2 to make sure I'm not fighting more than one problem. 2.6.17 and 2.6.18-rc1 kernels are both generating Oopses when Xorg fires up, and there are several reports of problems with Xorg 7.0.X (although I had 7.0.20 working with the TGA2 before I removed that card). -- --- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
