As you can see I have ported the 3dfx fbdev driver to the new api. It has
been tested on my home system and it works. I like others to try it out.
The patch is against 2.5.5-dj2
http://www.transvirtual.com/~jsimmons/tdfx.diff
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:22:30AM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
>
> As you can see I have ported the 3dfx fbdev driver to the new api. It has
> been tested on my home system and it works. I like others to try it out.
> 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?
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:22:30AM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > As you can see I have ported the 3dfx fbdev driver to the new api. It has
> > been tested on my home system and it works. I like others to try it out.
> > 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.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:44:26PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> Their are a few changes. I tested it last night and it worked for me. That
> doesn't mean much so if you could give it a try. BTW the penguin will not
> show up. I need to expand the imageblit function but it is not top
> priority right now.
Now that you mention the penguin, I was reminded of something.
Normally with this box, when the fb starts, the top 3rd of the
screen has a large white rectangle blitted onto it for reasons
I never figured out. Its purely cosmetic (it disappears when scrolling
begins), so it wasn't something I really bothered investigating.
It could be that with your reworking, this bug has taken on
a new form, and is now doing something more dramatic.
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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.
I'll take another look later if I get chance
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> > As you can see I have ported the 3dfx fbdev driver to the new api. It has
> > been tested on my home system and it works. I like others to try it out.
> > 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?
Their are a few changes. I tested it last night and it worked for me. That
doesn't mean much so if you could give it a try. BTW the penguin will not
show up. I need to expand the imageblit function but it is not top
priority right now.
> Now that you mention the penguin, I was reminded of something.
> Normally with this box, when the fb starts, the top 3rd of the
> screen has a large white rectangle blitted onto it for reasons
> I never figured out. Its purely cosmetic (it disappears when scrolling
> begins), so it wasn't something I really bothered investigating.
Attila Kesmarki's v0.2.0 patch for tdfxfb fixed this problem for me
when I tested it about a year and a half ago, but I don't think his
updates were ever integrated -- I don't know if there were issues with
the changes or not.
Anyway, the patches still seem to be up:
http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/
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From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
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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