16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
7:59 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, David Riley wrote:
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.
I appreciate the offer, but the Virge might be a little too new to be
supported by Digital Unix. If I can't find an original board, the best
chance for compatibility maybe a Trio64 based board. Because the Virge
chips were based on parts of the Trio, there is a chance it could work
though.
I did a second check through my own box of random PCI boards and the only
video boards that I found were an old Trident based board (junk, but I
kept it around for testing random motherboards) and a couple of old
Diamond Stealth 2500 (Aliance chipset). I guess I've managed to use or
give away pretty much all the old PCI VGA boards I used to have ;)