From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 433F54875 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:10:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Helge Deller To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Voodoo 2 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:09:59 +0200 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200404122309.59140.deller@gmx.de> Cc: "M. Grabert" List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Monday 12 April 2004 01:12, M. Grabert wrote: > I'm about to purchase a Voodoo2 PCI graphics card since I saw some > reports on the p-l list that it is working on Linux/PA-RISC. > > I want to ask a couple of questions before I'm going to buy the graphics card: > > - Helge prepared a patch to make the Voodoo working, and was incorporated > into the 2.4.19-pa18 kernel. It seems that it's still in 2.4.25-pa1. > But is the patch integrated into the mainstream 2.4? > I just took a brief look, and it appears so, is this correct? No idea yet. I will check. > - What about 2.6? I don't think that it's been forwarded to 2.6 yet? It's in 2.6. I just tested my Vodoo2 in my c3k and it works. Linux version 2.6.5-pa6 (root@p100) (gcc version 3.0.2 20010829 (prerelease)) #29 Mon Apr 12 22:46:03 CEST 2004 The 32-bit Kernel has started... .. sstfb: Voodoo2 (revision 2) with ICS ICS5342 dac sstfb: framebuffer at 0xfb400000, mapped to 0xfb400000, size 2MB fb0: Voodoo2 frame buffer device at 0xfb400000 .. I can run the driver, graphics & Tux penguin comes up. Running "fbset -a 1024x768-75" even gives me a nice big screen (although I still don't like this "stty cols 64 rows 48" stuff yet...) > - there is also the XFree86 Voodoo 1/2 driver from Alan Cox > (http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2004-February/022382.html) > > I suppose this driver also doesn't require the Voodoo2 card to be initialized, > and I think the advanage over using sstfb would be that it supports DGA > and some 2D acceleration. At least it should (if it works :-)) > Has anybody tested it (I couldn't even compile it)? Neither me (I was lacking the XFree86 sources). Helge