Another test iso image from AC1.0

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:56:28AM +0100, Simon Tierney wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is the Radeon 7000 series  PCI safe to use with AC1.0 if I can get one, or
> > > would that be experimental?
> > 
> > I had some trouble with the 7000 that I never saw with 7500/9100 or the
> > original Radeon. For that reason, I'd stay away.
> > 
> > I don't think the model of Radeon will make any difference with the
> > problems that the UP2000(+) boxes have with Radeons. I think its a
> > matter of an older BIOS emulator in the SRM console that causes the
> > problems.
> > 
> > Sorry.
> > 
> > I'll second the recommendation for Voodoo3-3000; that card seems to
> > be no problem for most SRM consoles, and performance is quite good,
> > thouh it will be hard to find...
> 
> I found a 4MB Permedia 2V PCI card at the MIT Flea Mkt. yesterday.  
> Hopefully, this will cooperate with Tru64 and Linux on my UP2000+.
> 
> FWIW, these are getting VERY hard to find.  Almost every vendor I spoke 
> with told me they had "..thrown them all out.."

Following up:  The most recent boot ISO correctly recognizes and 
initializes the Permedia card <g>.  Interestingly, xorgcfg under Gentoo 
fails miserably at this (I loose all console output in addition to having 
no X display), while RedHat 7.2 resorts to the framebuffer driver.

I'm REALLY looking forward to the first ISO release of AC1.0.

Steve