[haiku-development] Re: ATI Video Driver

Hi Gerald,

Gerald Zajac> 
> 
> 
> 
> Now that the S3 Savage video driver is complete except for possible
> future bug fixes, I'm considering implementing a video driver which
> will support all the ATI Rage 128 and Rage 128 Pro chips.  In
> addition, if it does not require too much additional work, it will 
> also
> support all the ATI Mach64 chips which are slightly older than
> the Rage 128 chips.
> 
> 
> 
> The reasons for doing this driver are that the BeOS drivers do not
> support all the chips in any of these groups of chips; and for 
> testing
> the driver, I have video cards with 9 distinct chips which cover most
> of the types of chips in these groups of chips.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone know the status of the Mach64 driver which is in the 
> source
> repository?  I have briefly looked at the code, but have not tried to
> build it.  It does not appear to support all of the Mach64 chips 
> since
> it has only 23 chip ID's defined;  whereas, the X.org ATI driver has 
> 35
> Mach64 chip ID's defined.  Based upon what I have seen so far, I will
> probably use the X.org code for the driver.

I have tested the driver which we have at the repository,
with an old Mach64, but it didn't work,
card id is (from syslog):
KERN: PCI:   vendor 1002: ATI Technologies Inc
KERN: PCI:   device 4755: 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]
i am planning to have a look at, to the near future,
but i am still at the beginning:)

 
> Regards,
> 
> Gerald
 
Bye, Vasilis

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