Re: cyberblade patch

["Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D.Mierzejewski@icm.edu.pl>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:17:36AM +0200, Knut_Petersen@t-online.de wrote:
> At the end of 2003 I complained about a lot of serious bugs. Nobody cared
> about that. Some people, even one of the linux gurus, just told me to use
> epiafb (not included in the standard distribution), but that driver is 
> even more broken. I then wrote a dirty hack and used it for some time ... 
> a vesafb with integrated cyberblade acceleration. Not really clean enough 
> for release ;-) At the end of 2005 I had some time and wrote cyblafb, based 
> on tridentfb. Probably cyblafb will be extended to include support for 
> cyberblade/i7 and another "Blade 3D" graphics cores. But fixing tridentfb 
> for all chips without hardware access is a task too time consuming for me.

I understand. Thank you for the detailed explanation. For the record:
if anyone wants to throw any patches that might work on Trident Cyber 9525
chipset at me, I'll be more than happy to test them.

Regards,

-- 
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University  |  http://www.icm.edu.pl  |  tel. +48 (22) 5540810


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