From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
  To  : ggi-develop <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:13:42 -0500 (EST)

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Atyfb on i386 (88800GX-D) (fwd)

Does teh kgicon driver work for ATI 64 GX cards? I tried to compile it
from todays degas snapshot. The auto configure script only works to detect
one card. I have several cards. I would like it to detect my ATI GX card. 
Then I can port it to the kernel:-)

P.S

  The nivdia kgicon driver went into the 2.3.26 kernels :)

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 will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now,
 thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. It made something
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:38:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: John R Lenton <chipaca@piquillin.fis.uncor.edu>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
     linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Atyfb on i386 (88800GX-D)

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, John R Lenton wrote:
>         Is there any reason for this driver to have fallen into
>         such disrepair? Here is a problem dating back nearly a

The driver never worked well on Mach64 GX due to the lack of support for the GX
PCI enabling stuff and the lack of support for most RAMDACs/clock chips, as
Petr already mentioned.

> On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:54:17PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec Ing.
> VTEI wrote, amonst other things,
> 
> > Old 88800GX boards are powered on with disabled MMIO and this MMIO cannot
> > be enabled through PCI, but must be enabled through io port 0x6AEC (and
> > this effectively disables multihead). Another problem is that there
> > are couple of DACs on these ATIs and driver supports only two of them -
> > - IBM RGB 514 and ATI 68860 B...

Yep.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
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