Help! Video card for Motorola Dual PPC PReP Board?

From: Brian (briansz_at_sitemouse.com)
Date: 08/20/03

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    Need to know what (if any) PCI video card will work with a Motorola MTX
    Dual-604e/300 PReP mobo. Mine is the board with three 32-bit PCI slots.

    All is fine over the serial console, board recognizes PS/2 KB at boot, all
    diags for KB and PCI in PPC-Bug run with no issues reported. I was able to
    install and update Debian, so I can tentatively say the board works.

    But I can't get a video card to fire up and initialize. I've tried:

    Matrox G200 PCI
    Permedia2 PCI
    ATI Mach64 PCI
    ATI Mach64/Rege II PCI

    All the above are known working boards, and I tried them in different PCI
    slots.

    Nothing, nada, zip. No matter if the console cable is plugged or
    unplugged.

    This is my first PReP board and attempt at LinuxPPC. I am missing
    something obvious, a jumper, ENV configuration setting or similar?

    Or can these boards really only run Cirrus/S3 video boards as is vaguely
    hinted at in several Google articles?

    Regards,

    Brian
    briansz@sitemouse.com

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