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[Fwd: Difficulty with Alliance Pro Motion 6410]

Roberto Pavan (rpavan@physics.ubc.ca)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:16:31 +0200

This is a post concerning my request for help in getting an Alliance ProMotion
6410 card to work under X. It won't, at least not yet. I would therefore
recommend that nobody bother with it.

> The current apm driver will just plain not work with a 6410-based card.
> Note that it is only the PCI probe routines that are recognizing the
> chipset, not the apm driver.
>
> The ProMotion 6422 and newer chips have a built-in RAMDAC and clockchip.
> Both of those items are external with the 6410 and so the driver has to
> know how to deal with the various clockchips and RAMDACs, in addition to
> the graphics controller. The current apm driver has absolutely zero code
> for talking to any such chips.

Considering that the card is an older model and not that popular, I doubt a
new driver will be available soon.

--
Your faithful narrator,
Roberto Pavan, rpavan@physics.ubc.ca


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