From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4SMJAnC031000 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 15:19:10 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4SMJAhM030999 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 2002 15:19:10 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from tibook.netx4.com (embeddededge.com [209.113.146.155]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4SMJ5nC030996 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 15:19:06 -0700 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4SMJW900688; Tue, 28 May 2002 18:19:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF40273.1000801@embeddededge.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:19:31 -0400 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kissell" CC: Jun Sun , Geert Uytterhoeven , "Steven J. Hill" , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: PCI Graphics/Video Card for Malta Board? References: <3CF3B72B.4020600@mvista.com> <01da01c2066f$3ed63f40$10eca8c0@grendel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Kevin D. Kissell wrote: >>Dan Malek also wrote a driver for MQ200. I can't really take credit for that :-). It was a bunch of code from various places I just turned into a driver. > I *am* asking around - that's why I started this thread. Look at some of the stuff from Epson. You may find something there. > So it sounds like the Matrox G450 PCI is really the only > game in town... It very well may be the only option. I've been working with "standard" graphic cards/chips for embedded devices for quite some time. The latest technology is always quite secret, seldom even available under NDA. Most of the cards I have used come from the $5 cardboard box in one of the electronic salvage yards in Silicon Valley. Something so old they will tell you about the registers on the board :-) -- Dan