From: Jim H. <jim...@ac...> - 2002-04-12 12:09:24
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On 11-Apr-2002 Romain Dolbeau wrote: > The real permedia2 was supported at some point in the > linux kernel (I used th code as th basis for pm3fb), but > the maintainer orphaned it a while ago. Funny this should come up now. Yesterday I did some work on updating the pm2fb driver in 2.4 to include the changes in Illo's last released driver. I have a x86 machine with a PCI Permedia card (Creative GraphicsBlaster?) which I've been using happily for some time with Illo's driver on 2.2. The driver in stock 2.2 doesn't work well for me, but Illo's last release does. The 2.4 update isn't done yet, as the change to 2.4 has uncovered a bug which manifests as default modes with low hsync/vsync actually getting high hsync/vsync (guess who's using an old Sun fixed-frequency monitor that requires low hsync/vsync...), but I'm pretty sure I now know what's wrong and the fix is easy. I'm hoping it'll also fix the problem I've had using it with the X glint server too. When that's all out of the way I'm happy to take a crack at moving it to the new API (once the whitepaper is ready :-)), though I won't be quick - I don't have much spare time, and I'm no video driver expert. Any pointers to docs on the chip would be welcome. -- Jim Hague - jim...@in... (Work), ji...@be... (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift. |