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List:       linux-ppc
Subject:    Re: Accelerated X on PowerMac9600?
From:       Andy <lordpixel () mac ! com>
Date:       2000-04-30 22:18:30
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Christian Jaeger wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to setup accelerated X on a PowerMac 9600. Xpmac (at least
> Xpmac-Rage128 rev.9) doesn't support acceleration on it. While booting, my
> selfcompiled 2.2.15pre9 kernel says '/bandit/formacGA5' and 'unsupported',
> and XF86_FBDev (Version 3.3.3) doesn't seem to understand the hardware, the
> lower half of the screen remains black (or whatever was on the console) and
> the upper half shows the content twice and totally wrong (some bit depth
> problems). The kernel has all mac video drivers compiled in except for the
> matrox acceleration. There's no option in xconfig like 'formac' or 'GA5'.
> How do I get a native driver for this machine?
>


Hmmm, Formac are a German company and thus not particularly well known to
US developers, so you might be out of luck with this one. I recognize them
because I'm from the UK originally am I've just educated myself to discover
that 'ch' is Switzerland :-)

On that basis I suggest you go ask the Suse people. That's generally
considered the most "European Linux" (if that means anything) and I believe
the core of the Suse operation is in Germany. Since Suse have a PowerPC
distribution these days you might just be in luck after all...

AndyT

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