Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Permedia 2 cards supported?

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> > chip for vga modes and a 3DLabs GLINT delta and 500TX chips on it. Did
> > anyone manage to get it to work?
> 
> James, ...
> 
> This is not a permedia2 board. it is a delta+tx combo, while the permedia2
> chip had the delta core on die.
> 
> I don't know even if it is a permedia chip (i think the glint R1 are another
> name for permedia1, but i suppose that glint delta is only one chip, which may
> or may not be a permedia1 chip).
> 
> What does lspci or scanpci say about it ?

00:0c.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 05)
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop+ ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=64K]

00:0c.1 Non-VGA unclassified device: 3DLabs GLINT Delta (rev 01)
	Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (48000ns min, 48000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at db800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K]

00:0c.2 Non-VGA unclassified device: 3DLabs GLINT 500TX (rev 01)
	Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K]
	Region 1: Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
	Region 2: Memory at d9800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8M]
	Region 3: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
	Expansion ROM at e3fa0000 [disabled] [size=64K]

> I guess that what really happens here is that you have one delta chip, which
> comprise just a geometry setup unit and some other 3d stuff, not really used
> for fbdev, and a 500TX rasterizer coupled with the S3 virge ramdac possibly,
> and this is what you would want to address. 
> 
> The X server does have support for this kind of config, so you could look
> there for inspiration if you want.

Not yet. The main goal was to port the PM2 driver over to the new api. I
was hoping I came around the hardware I needed.