From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Thu 31 Aug 2000 - 22:39:53 IDT
> With all this dicussion of Matrox and SGVA I must ask.... > Has anyone built a driver, or are you using VESA BIOS ? > > I have svga (kinda) ported to my own little OS, which isn't Linux. > I have a lab of 15 Hp machines with G200-AGP systems.If there is > want for a svga driver, I would be willing to help "facilitate" it. > I have a strong need to a simple (enters SVGA modes, hardware blit > acceleration not required) SVGALIB driver. > > I emailed Matan and he said it shouldn't be too hard to read the > X11 sources and borrow from there.Well, I read the sources and I hope I did not say that recently - the databook is available from matrox, so it should be used to write a driver. The X11 source still can help, though. > got scared of the compute_best_timing() routine in X11 for the > G200.Anyone else feel up to the task? I would be willing to You should not need to find the timing. svgalib does it for you. I suggest that you use the 3.3.6 code, rather than the 4.0 code, and use my driver writing howto, which gives simple instructions. -- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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