From: Conan Ford (cford@cnnet.com)
Date: Mon 12 Oct 1998 - 21:13:41 IST
Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > > vbetest in all modes that I tried resulted in a blank screen. mode3 had > > no effect. I've sent a message to subscribe to the linux-svgalib > > mailing list at vger.rutgers.edu. I'm going to play around with the > > rest of the modes that I didn't try yet in vbetest. > > Don't bother with more modes, but if you can strace one run of > vbetest, and of mode3, and send me the results, it might help. What is the strace mode of vbetest? Perhaps I am running vbetest wrong. > > > Actually I run in software mode in win95 as well. In LINUX it is a > > problem with the card as I can visibly see the screen updating (I can > > see the changes propogate from top to bottom). I get 23 fps in > > _software_ mode in win95, and 10 fps in svgalib in linux in quakeworld. > > Is that in 320x200? that's wierd, since svgalib does nothing after > setting the mode. It's all quake's work. Yep, that's 320x200. This is using VGA mode in svgalib, btw. > > > I have a Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition V2100 chip), and more than > > a few hours to spare over the next few months, and although I am > > experienced with C programming, know little about hardware programming. > > It takes no knowledge of hardware programming, but simply translating > from the X source to the svgalib driver. If you don't have source, but > you do have chipset data, then you need to understand things in order > to write a driver. > > When the source becomes available (SUSE say they provide their sources > to XFree86, so it should be in the next XFree86 release), I can send > you cookbook instructions on writing a driver if you want. Okay, I'm willing to give it a try when the XFree86 sources come out from SuSE.
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