[iyonix-support] Re: WTD: Fanless Iyonix graphics card
- From: Peter Naulls <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:40:48 -0800
Ron wrote:
That's correct, Grahame, The support for (unmodified) FX5200
started with 5.12.
A further question might be, for people still using the original
MX400, can they upgrade to 5.14 without changing to a FX5200?
One poster has said he is still using 5.03!
Yes. Although the exact path from 5.03 may require a couple of
steps. One of the advantages of the later (although the 5x00
series is now quite old) is that it didn't require this mod.
Can I urge people running very old versions to upgrade -
current 5.16 confusion notwithstanding, there's really no
good reason to soft-load 5.14 etc.
Looking at my local discount computer place
(http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=VCD) I can see that
even 9x00 series cards are offered in PCI. The main
problem with supporting these cards is the initialisation
sequence, which is nominally x86 code run by a PC BIOS
at machine boot. On RISC OS, you either need a limited x86
emulator, or equivalent code to do the job.
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