[suse-sparc] Re: Raptor GFX (OEM Framebuffer) graphic card

From: Josemaria Malgosa Sanahuja (josem.malgosa@upct.es)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 01:10:16 PDT

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:10:16 +0200
From: Josemaria Malgosa Sanahuja <josem.malgosa@upct.es>
Subject: [suse-sparc] Re: Raptor GFX (OEM Framebuffer) graphic card

    Thanks a lot Scott. I forward the message to the distribution
    list.

    > "Micciche, Scott A" wrote:
    >
    > Here's what I had to do, I had to go into the prom and remove the
    > ati probe.
    >
    > from Stop-A, do a "printenv" to see the pcib-probe-list, it will
    > probably say 1,2,3
    >
    > do a "setenv pcib-probe-list 1,3" to change the order and omit the
    > onboard ati
    >
    > issue a "reset" to lock in the changes.
    >
    > move the 15 pin DIN to the raptor card and when the machine boots, I
    > did a Stop-A and "boot cdrom"
    >
    > At boot time, you will see the cdrom spin but will not see anything,
    > hit enter once the cd stops spinning (silo prompt from cdrom) after
    > a couple of seconds, you'll see the kernel initialization as the
    > permedia2 framebuffer will kick in. Hope that helps.
    >
    > Scott 

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