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stonent Veteran
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rkrenzis Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 135 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: XVR-100 working with FBDEV... |
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I was able to get the XVR-100 working with FBDEV. Xorg recognizes it as:
Quote: | (II) FBDEV(0): Hardware: ATI Radeon QY (vidmem: 65536k) |
But I am unable to get any of the accelerated drivers to work. I have posted my configuration to another thread with my results. Grandted, the xvr-100 is slow with fbdev...but it is better than nothing.
You can get a working configuration for fbdev here for the xvr-100:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-227308-highlight-xvr100.html
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GenTimJS Guru
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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While I do not know much about the PCI bus protocol, i would suppose that:
Given the nature of *nix and xorg, and the capability for multiple video devices:
we could take any pci based system which reports the pci bus IDs to "userland" in the "normal"? way,
add in a pci graphics card, and configure xorg to point to it
now this may not make it work on bootup for console and such, but are there any low-level reasons why this wouldnt work?
if its a case where the bios does not send some kind of "init" signal to the card telling to to "turn on", there has GOT to be a way to do that with software ..... ?
is PCI a proprietary protocol? _________________ -Tim Smith |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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X86 cards have to be 100% compatable with the original mid-80's IBM VGA BIOS Cards for Mac and Sparc to not need have that requirement.
Technically any DOS program that used VGA should still work today on even the most advanced or cheapest video x86 video cards. _________________ Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
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Weeve Retired Dev
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: XVR-100 working with FBDEV... |
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[quote="rkrenzis"]I was able to get the XVR-100 working with FBDEV. Xorg recognizes it as:
Quote: | (II) FBDEV(0): Hardware: ATI Radeon QY (vidmem: 65536k) |
What kind of box do you have one of these in? |
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