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From: lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Xconfig for ATI Wonder V3?
Message-ID: <1993Mar31.191923.6372@exu.ericsson.se>
Date: 31 Mar 93 19:19:23 GMT
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In article <1993Mar30.170656.28858@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
|> In article <1993Mar29.185005.9512@exu.ericsson.se> lmcdefo@lmc.ericsson.se (Denis Fortin) writes:
|> > In article <paul.733385642@suite.sw.oz.au>, paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) writes:
|> > |> I've read everything I could find on deriving Xconfigs, including
|> > |> readme's etc, but could find nothing that would work with my
|> > |> (admittedly old) ATI VGA Wonder card (it's the early V3 version).
|> > [the problem is probably that...] in V3 you can't define different
|> > read and write addresses when you access pixels. Therefore,
|> > you cannot blit from one place to the next
|> If that's the only problem, XFree86 now supports single-bank BitBlts (added
|> for the brain-dead Trident chipsets). It does the horrible/nasty/ugly
|> scheme of slurp-into-a-buffer-then-spew-it-out.
Wow. I guess I should then dig up my ATI manuals, the MIT source code and
try to get this working once I get zap (my home machine) working under
386BSD.
I haven't really looked at XFree86 yet... Is the procedure to compile/extend
it documented in the FAQ somewhere? (And is the single-bank blit code in
a fairly obvious place?)
(PS. Paul, how interested are you in getting this to work? Is it worth it
for me to do this? (i.e. will there be at least one user out there :-))
|> "Love is like oxygen. You get too much, you get too high. Not enough and
|> you're gonna die." -- Sweet, Love Is Like Oxygen
Wasn't that a song by Air Supply?