16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
6:24 p.m.
On Aug 16, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
The only thing I've been able to find so far are
scrappers on eBay who want $$$ for old PCI video boards, which needless to say isn't
economically viable for a machine such as this. I think I'd be tempted to throw a
random S3 based board in there if it weren't that I really need to be able test on
proper hardware.
If that's all you want, I have an old S3 Virge PCI card sitting
around here somewhere. I don't know how similar that is to the
Trio, but my guess is it's not super-close; there are framebuffer
drivers for both in the kernel tree, though curiously enough,
virgefb seems to be only for Zorro (Amiga) boards. Perhaps it
was a popular expansion?
Anyway, it works fine as an SVGA board on PCs. If you'd like it,
you can have it for shipping from Philadelphia.
- Dave