MediatorPCI 3000 test/article

[seer]

I choose to use a voodoo 3 3000 card as recommended by Elbox for video. Any of the voodoo cards will work however if you have the updated voodoo driver. Next I installed the TrendNET 10/100 Ethernet card. This card is based off the RTL8139D chipset. Only RealTek chipsets can be used at this time with the mediator and a voodoo card must be installed for any 100 speed card to work. I then installed a SoundBlaster PCI 128 card; again make sure you have a voodoo card installed for this to work.

eh ? So you must have a Voodoo 3 GFX card to use
anything else with this What's up with that ? Some kind of weird drivers ?

[seer]

Map 8mb of the Voodoo into the A1200-address-space and thane route all acceses to any PCI-card through these 8mb.

Still weird  ;-)  

Not that I'm against a Voodoo card, and it's not like PCI gfx cards are easy to get (well different models that is) but maybe they should have opted for a "put some mem on the mediator to route all acces..)

But then, I'm no hardware designer...

[seer]

/me is a bit confused

So what else is new.... :-D

All to easy...  ;-)

/Me running real fast right now !

[seer]

So, how does one get a resolution of 640 x 480 x 8 with ECS and "NO GRAPHICS CARD"?

I guess P96Speed 1.2 doesn't see a GFX card on a mediator ? Or just dowsn't know what a Voodoo card is ? It doesn't show on the list on the p96 homepage..