Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] tdfx ported to new fbdev api

[Jurriaan on Alpha <thunder7@xs4all.nl>]

From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:08:47PM +0100
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:00:04PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
>  > > > The patch is against 2.5.5-dj2
>  > > > http://www.transvirtual.com/~jsimmons/tdfx.diff
>  > >  Is this one different to the one I saw last time?
>  > Actually no. I think the driver hasn't changed. I does work for me. Did
>  > you try it out again.
> 
>  Ok. I didn't look too deeply last time, but it died immediately
>  on switching the display, and was really dead, no keyboard leds,
>  nada.
> 
That was my experience also (Voodoo 4500 pci/Alpha architecture).
However, the VIDCFG_2X handling in his patch worked, and the kernel
(pre-2.4.18) didn't. Luckily, a small patch was accepted to change that.

I'm willing to test any patches for tdfxfb on Alpha.

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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