From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <398540D2.78A1388E@relog.ch> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:03:14 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Reply-To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SteffenH@hyperion-software.de CC: Iain Sandoe , takashi oe , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: LinuxPPC X Server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Steffen Haeuser wrote: > >agpgart was required _for r128 DRI_ until some time ago. It's possible that > >it's still needed by the driver in X 4.0.1 but definitely not in the latest > >DRI CVS. > > That is really good news :) If anyone had the chance to try it out, please > tell so... Hold on, I will :) > if this works, we might even take some of you guys into the Sin Beta Tester > programs, if I remember right, we still need a handful of testers (but I > have to check with the guy doing the Betatester issues in our company...). I for one wouldn't say no... > Driver Coding normally has not that much to do with the OS... :) > The main work is to find out how this Chip works, and then duplicate the > functionality of an API by using the Chip Registers (and some of those > sometimes do things in a *really cruel way*... some years ago I had to do > some stuff on the old Virge chip... > this was nasty...) The difficult is usually the register setup... not the > interface to the OS... AFAIK the specs for Rage128 aren't publicly available, but there's working code in DRI - I'm convinced it will be far more easier to get it working than write something new from scratch. Michel -- UNIX is like Sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you know it, you'll need it. ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/