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Old 01-04-2008, 09:41 PM
Martin Etteldorf
 
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Default Re: rs6000 604e PCI graphics card?

Gereon Wenzel <wenzel@ibh.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> > Yes, this works. But it's boring to drag my portable along.. and the rs6000
> > would make a great X terminal.

>
> You can try to use a Diamond Viper (Weitek P9100 based) with removed
> BIOS ROM.


Works ok, but the /VP isn't supported as the primary framebuffer
in some machines. Besides that, it gives only 8 Bit color depth
and performance is rather slow.



Martin.

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