[News] Elbox is releasing their 100% compatible P96 driver today | ANN.lu |
Posted on 13-Feb-2001 21:46 GMT by Christian Kemp | 31 comments View flat View list |
Christophe Decanini quotes VGR.COM: ELBOX Computer Development Department is proud to announce today's release of the new driver for graphic cards working with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard (..) Support for Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards is limited to 24-bit graphic mode. Here is the press release.
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Elbox is releasing their 100% compatible P96 driver today : Comment 31 of 31 | ANN.lu |
Posted by tronman on 17-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (Anonymous): Uh, that's not entirely true. PCI does actually have ROM data in each card with a unique vendor ID nr. and each card tells the bus what it is/needs at boot time... Just like Zorro!!! The IRQ/DMA deal is the x86 legacy part of the interface. If PCI is good enough for a 64bit Alpha box, it sure can kick the shit outa ZorroIII. Can we PLEASE get off the Zorro bus now?? I can almost hear Amiga Inc. Laughing at the 'Zorro V' request!!! GET REAL!!! AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!
At any rate, even x86 arch moves on. A look at the PC99 spec reveals that ISA and the FDC are pretty much verboten. A fully compliant system doesn't even have an FDC only a (now sadly defunct) LS120 on the IDE bus as the floppy. Even under Linux I have only ever had one card not auto-configure and that was a dodgy 3COM modem card (no, it wasn't a WINmodem either.) but I got rid of it before I got RH7.0 so I don't know if the newest KUDZU would have found it. |
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