From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 09 Apr 2003 02:30:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from [IPv6:::ffff:159.226.39.4] ([IPv6:::ffff:159.226.39.4]:6576 "HELO mail.ict.ac.cn") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:30:36 +0100 Received: (qmail 15044 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2003 01:09:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ict.ac.cn) (159.226.40.150) by 159.226.39.4 with SMTP; 9 Apr 2003 01:09:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3E9377A8.4050407@ict.ac.cn> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:30:16 +0800 From: Fuxin Zhang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 X-Accept-Language: zh-cn, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Earl Mitchell , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: pci graphics card for malta running linux References: <20030408175517.66121.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> <1049833899.8939.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1049833899.8939.9.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1951 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: fxzhang@ict.ac.cn Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 18:55, Earl Mitchell wrote: > > >>Does anybody have any good reccs for PCI graphcis cards I can use with >>Malta board running linux? Some linux device drivers assume x86. If >>you know some PCI cards that work with linux/mips on malta let me know >>(especially nVidia or ATI cards). Also any PCI sound cards that work >>too. >> >> we managed to use x86emu to run bios firmware on a mips board,the cards we tried including nvidia riva TNT2(?) and ATI Rage Pro and some old S3 too. If you want i can give your the code. It is expected to run both in pmon,kernel and user space(probably some hardware related tweak needed),though i have never got enough time to make things perfect. >Nvidia and ATI cards require you run the BIOS firmware to boot them. >XFree86 can do that for the ATI at least. If you just need to ram >something into a box so you can see what is going up I'd suggest >getting an old voodoo1/voodoo2 off ebay. They report as multimedia >devices and the current kernel fb driver can bootstrap them from >cold on little or big endian systems with no bios support (tested >on parisc, x86 etc) > >Not bad for <$10 a card although nobody has made Glide work big endian >so you can do 3D yet 8) > >Alan > > > > > >