Re: Rage128 as secondary adapter

[Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>]

* Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> [030109 18:47]:
> Can someone with access to the Rage128 documentation
> tell me how to do this from protected mode? I have the
> ROM mapped so the code can get to constants stored in
> the ROM. What I need is a piece of C code equal to
> what the ROM initialization does minus the part about
> Int10 vector setup.
 
I'm almost certain that the information you need is only
available when signing an NDA and thus could not be used
in open source drivers. Also a big problem for open source
firmware implementations such as openbios

> The programmers at ATI probably have a piece of code
> available to do this since ATI's Windows driver can do
> it.  I've tried emailing and signing up as a developer
> without response.
 
This is a pretty common experience.

Stefan.

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