From: Jan Kneschke <Jan.Kneschke@kiel.netsurf.de>
  To  : GGI Development <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:26:35 +0200 (MEST)

Re: kgicon on PPC (yes, I finally tried)

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 	Hi guys,
> 
> I finally tried kgicon on my CHRP box with S3 Vision968 (2 MB VRAM, IBM RGB526
> RAMDAC).
> 
> Comments:
> 
>   - After checking out the files using CVS, the scripts lack the `x' flag, so
>     they don't want to be executed.
>   - What's the -486 option doing there? My egcs doesn't grok that :-)
>   - The card autodetect script failed. /proc/pci no longer exists.
>   - To compile fbcon-kgi.c, I had to
>       o #define VGER_KERNEL
>       o change #include <file> into #include <video/file>
> 
> That gave me a kgicon.o (yes!).
> 
> But insmod kgicon.o gave me this error:
> 
> | S3 86c964/86c968 chipset driver rev $Revision: 1.3 $
> | error: failed to detect Vision964 or Vision968.
> | error: kgim_chipset_init failed
> | error: init_kgi() failed, bailing out....
> 
> May be normal, Open Firmware doesn't allocate PCI space for the driver. So I
> ran my good old `s3' utility[*] which does enable PCI memory responses for the
> Vision968, and retried. Same result.
> 
> Then I ran `em86', an ix86 BIOS emulator by Gabriel Paubert, which initializes
> my board to VGA text mode and displays the Diamond Stealth banner, and retried.
> Same result.
> 
> Any clues?
sure. the vision is only semi-proted to kgicon. please wait til next weekend
for a working driver, because i'm next to a deadline (31.08) of a
web-project.
 
> Greetings,
> 
> 						Geert
> 


thats all
  Jan

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