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From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pictures, as promised ...
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:22:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111122253.GA12594@lb.tenfour> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031110134827.E10935@edinburgh.cisco.com>

* Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com> [1149 13:49]:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:27:29PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > what's the video card on those things like?
>
> depends upon which EPIA board is being used.
>
> If it's the old one it uses the VIA VT8601A (Apollo PLE133) chipset,  which
> has a Trident VGA built in (Blade 3D?).
>
> If it's one of the newer models,  then it has a S3 savage derived chipset.
>
> Both have support in XFree86 if you want to try and scrounge up some code :-)

Even the X support is a bit crappy, though (for Tridents at least).

But the EPIA boards have a PCI slot (although a minibox case is too
small to hold a card), so just fit something supported...

--
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
		-- Ernest Bramah
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns


      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-10  2:54 ron minnich
2003-11-10  3:27 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10  3:57   ` ron minnich
2003-11-12 15:06     ` matt
2003-11-10 13:48   ` Derek Fawcus
2003-11-10 14:28     ` kiwane
2003-11-10 14:54       ` Derek Fawcus
2003-11-10 16:29         ` ron minnich
2003-11-11 12:22     ` Rasputin [this message]

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