From: Chris Purnell (cjp@oit.net)
Date: Fri 01 Sep 2000 - 15:55:14 IDT
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:06:38PM -0500, UNIX savy Brian Witt wrote: > 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 > 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 > maintain the code (and test it), but I don't have the time to > decipher X11 (though it looks well structured). Ask me about > scheduling and ethernet device drivers, but not graphics cards. The VESA driver was not good enough for what I'm using svgalib for (I need 1600x1200x24). So I was going to write a Matrox driver but I took one look at the XF86 sources and freaked. I ended up using the linux frame-buffer device. The linux kernel sources is another place to look for example code. I would be willing to help anyone write a native Matrox driver for svgalib but I'm not going to take the initiative with it. -- Christopher John Purnell | A friend in need's a friend in deed http://www.lost.org.uk/ | A friend with weed is better --------------------------| A friend with breasts and all the rest What gods do you pray to? | A friend who's dressed in leather
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