From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard Drummond" Subject: Re: tdfx & multiple voodoo cards : supposed to work ? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:34:15 -0000 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20031030123418.7005615CA9@mail03.powweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFC0G-00018D-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:34:16 -0800 Received: from mail03.powweb.com ([63.251.216.36]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AFC0F-0003mE-QR for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:34:15 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Fbdev development list Cc: Sven Luther Hi Sven > BTW, what is the status of voodoo 4 & 5 with fbdev ? I get reports of > endianess problems, but this may also be related to XFree86, i will have > to investigate more. Voodoo4/5 has a different method of byte-swizzling for big-endian hardware than the Voodoo3 - which isn't supported by the current tdxfb driver or by XFree86. I have been working on a fix for tdfxfb, and have had some success - but since I don't have any documentation, it's involved a lot of guess-work. I haven't looked at this for a while, but I could dig out the code again and supply a patch against what I have got so far. As to your other problem, I have two Voodoos working on my Mac with 2.6, so I would expect such a set-up to work on the Pegasos too. On PPC hardware, there should be no problem of conflicting VGA ports since the PCI sub-system can remap I/O ports on the PPC. Actually, there are one or two bugs in the tdfxfb driver which crop up when using multiple cards - but nothing too serious it would seem. Again, I've been meaning to submit a patch . . . (where does all the time go ;-) Cheers, Rich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/