Re: tdfx and DDC2

Michael <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:06:22 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID	<20050830190622.3e79f1e5@inishowen>

Hello,

> Is the implication here that plugging a PC PCI graphics card into
> a powerpc machine will never work (as a secondary display), even
> if the software driving it knows how to initialise it in the absence
> of OpenFirmware?

Of course not. All I said is that you're rather unlikely to find a
VESA BIOS on a graphics card in a non-PC-box. And in the case at hand  -
tdfx - we don't need firmware help to set up the hardware anyway.

have fun
Michael

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