Re: Help! Video card for Motorola Dual PPC PReP Board?

From: Brian (briansz_at_sitemouse.com)
Date: 08/22/03 

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:12:38 +0200

>>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?
>
> Yes. Google for a seller of surplus CL5446 card, the price is right
> and you'll will be pleased with having a headed console. Also,
> clgenfb should work with CL5446 on PRePs (it did when Garzik
> took my patches a year ago).
>
> Alternatively, you can run serial console for PPCBUF and use a known
> "full core init" FB driver to get a Linux console. matroxfb with
> a _Matrox Millenium I_ is a good choice. G200/400 won't work.
> Surplus Milleniums are dirt cheap through many on-line sellers and
> ebay. This is a better solution (if you don't really care about
> headed operation in PPCBUG) since all color depths work
> properly unlike clgenfb on PReP.
>
> Regards,

Matt,

Thanks very much for clarifying this for me. I just sent my last
Millenium I out last month with an EV56 Alpha, so I'll see if I can
hunt up another to play with this beastie.

Seems like this would make a nice low-power server board if nothing
else. Any idea what they're worth? I got it inside a rackmount
ATX case I recently purchased secondhand, really know nothing else
about PReP except for what I've learned in the last week. Google
seems to indicate these were extremely expensive when purchased new,
but with so little info it's hard to tell what they might be worth
nowadays.

For reference, it has 256K cache, 128MB RAM, dual 604e/300. Looks
nearly (but not completely) identical to the MTX in a pdf product
manual I found on the net.

I assume mine is earlier than that one, I have a 21140 vs. 21143
(listed in the catalog) DEC Ethernet controller. Still does 100BT
full duplex just fine, good enough for me.

Regards,

Brian
briansz@sitemouse.com

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