From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:15:06 -0700 To: Dan Baker Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] X problems... Message-ID: <20030220051506.GA10418@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030220012101.7198.23807.Mailman@dsl2.external.hp.com> <003601c2d881$54da7920$830c1bac@vli82k7dbaker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <003601c2d881$54da7920$830c1bac@vli82k7dbaker> From: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler) Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:42:29PM -0800, Dan Baker wrote: > BUT, I did download source code for HP's Intel linux visualize driver. I > can't get it to compile, the assembler tells me there's an invalid opcode > (??) in the .o file. I'm not really a programmer, so I'm hoping somebody out > there can take a look at what they're doing and fix it. Well, it's not that easy even for someone who can read C. First, some bad news: o x86 version of the card has extra VGA cruft+BIOS. PA-Risc version uses STI firmware for initialization. o IIRC, the X11 server (or maybe just gfx card driver?) is a custom, closed source code. Hopefully I'm wrong and someone will correct me. o I'll guess that many (most of the?) interesting bits are in the XF86 hpgfx driver module. I'm assuming one exists. Good news: 3d acceleration for x86 cards uses the same RISC engines as the parisc cards. Several years ago I asked someone in the HP gfx group if they could port the HPUX driver to parisc-linux but our port wasn't ready then (I think it is now). The gfx driver interacts *alot* with the rest of the kernel *and* the X11 server. The above is what I remember from conversations with people. > The files are at > > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd/soar2sdd/wk207/wk207en/hpgraphics_kernel-1.5.3-1.sr > c.rpm > and > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ccd/soar2sdd/wk207/wk207en/hpgraphics_kernel-1.5.3-1.sr > c.rpm uhm...'cuse me, but aren't those the same? hth grant