Finding specs on"ati-102-a59401-00(B)" 2x 2 x DVI-I video card
Assembled Illuminati; I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today. This is a PCI (not PCI-e ) 2 x 2 x DVI-I . It seems to work with a dual DVI-I output cable on one of 2 outputs, and a DVI-I to VGA converter.on one of those cable ends. Trying to find the specs on it; has thus far been unsuccessful, after extensive googling. It seems likely it is some kind of proprietary OEM card; but the interesting possibility of 4 monitors motivates me to try to find out what sort of resolution it is capable of and, whether it has some more widely available relative whose driver could be used; any suggestions gratefully received, thanks Rohan McLeod .
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today.
Install it on a Linux system, run "lspci", and then put the relevant output line into Google. That almost always works. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Rohan McLeod<rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today. Install it on a Linux system, run "lspci", and then put the relevant output line into Google. That almost always works. It seems to be a "ATI FireMV 2400 PCI; 4 x 64MB"; at least that Win32-XP driver works, and shows a choice of 1-4 monitors ....is it too exotic to hope to find a Linux driver ?
regards Rohan McLeod
Rohan McLeod wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Rohan McLeod<rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today. Install it on a Linux system, run "lspci", and then put the relevant output line into Google. That almost always works. It seems to be a "ATI FireMV 2400 PCI; 4 x 64MB"; at least that Win32-XP driver works, and shows a choice of 1-4 monitors ....is it too exotic to hope to find a Linux driver ?
You don't "find" a linux driver for GPUs. There are a handful of standard drivers, and they either work or they don't (as at a given version of the driver -- upgrading/downgrading the driver sometimes helps). It will almost certainly work with VESA driver. radeon(4) tells you what the open-source driver supports -- a good rule of thumb is probably something like "is it 6mo older than the distro release I'm running on it?" I cannot comment on the non-free ATI driver (fglrx). Even people that like non-free drivers seem to hate the ATI one. Google the lspci string as you were told -- in particular the xxxx:yyyy number (lspci -nn). Boot a live CD similar to the distro/release you want to ultimately run.
Trent W. Buck wrote:
It seems to be a "ATI FireMV 2400 PCI; 4 x 64MB"; at least that Win32-XP driver works, and shows a choice of 1-4 monitors ....is it too exotic to hope to find a Linux driver ?
Google the lspci string as you were told -- in particular the xxxx:yyyy number (lspci -nn).
Boot a live CD similar to the distro/release you want to ultimately run. Will try; thanks Rohan McLeod
On 22/07/2012, at 21:22, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Assembled Illuminati; I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today. This is a PCI (not PCI-e ) 2 x 2 x DVI-I . It seems to work with a dual DVI-I output cable on one of 2 outputs, and a DVI-I to VGA converter.on one of those cable ends. Trying to find the specs on it; has thus far been unsuccessful, after extensive googling. It seems likely it is some kind of proprietary OEM card; but the interesting possibility of 4 monitors motivates me to try to find out what sort of resolution it is capable of and, whether it has some more widely available relative whose driver could be used; any suggestions gratefully received, thanks Rohan McLeod .
Hi Rohan, Can you provide us with the relevant results of 'lspci -v' and the card auto detect log of the ati driver. I'm not familiar with ati though nvidia and intel cards report auto detect details to the xorg log. Between the two sets of information there'd be something to narrow it down. Edward
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