[interfacekit] Re: R3 legacy code in R5 drivers?!?

Andrew Bachmann wrote
> Rudolf wrote:
> > I confirmed that no G400 and Millenium R3 drivers are present on R5: those 
> > should be in:
> > /boot/beos/system/add_ons/app_server/
> > There are still a few there though..
> > (Or am I mistaken here??)
> 
> I looked in this directory.  All of the add-ons here export the
> control_graphics_card call.  One of the add-ons is quite generically
> named: "supervga".  It includes a couple of variants of
> control_graphics_card: vesa_control_graphics_card and
> svga_control_graphics card.  I also note that it is the only add-on in
> this directory to use create_area.
>
> There's also a possibility that you don't need to implement
> control_graphics_card, but if you provide the right magic
> interface or behavior in your accelerant, than the supervga
> add-on will be used.

Presumably the R5 interface is more powerful than the R3 interface,
that is to say, it totally encompasses the functionality of the R3
interface.  So, it could make sense that Be built a bridge.  However,
it could be that the bridge only works to the /beos/system/add-ons
part, and not the /home/config/add-ons branch where the nv.accelerant
and nv.driver are installed by default.  Maybe just try installing the
nvidia drivers to the beos tree! :-)

Andrew

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