From: Isaac Connor <iconnor@penultima.org>
  To  : ggi-develop <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:06:29 -0500 (EST)

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

Unknown.  I no longer have Mach64 cards to test with.  Someone else should
take over the mach64 driver.

Isaac Connor
4th Year C&O & CS - University of Waterloo 
ATI Mach64 GGI Driver maintainer
Creator of the Rasca MP3 Player

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, James Simmons wrote:

> 
> 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 :)
> 
> "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
>  will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now,
>  thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. It made something
>  better, linux :)"
> 
> ---------- 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,
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> 							    -- Linus Torvalds
> 
>