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 Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 12:46 pm Post subject: other drivers than just nvidia |
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Hi.
why not make an ebuild to the powervr driver for Kyro2 cards?
http://www.powervr.com > Downloads.
and why not include that driver in the Ut2k3 demo live disc?
I have tryed it myself, running ut2k3 demo, and it worked fine.
it whould be nice...
it is siad the Kyro2 is the only card thats not supported by X, i got to know that after i bought it, damn i was dissapointed, but then i found that page, the driver is as good as the nvidia one. i tryed playing counterstrike and ut2k3 and q3 all worked just fine, even better then my gf2mx400 with 64MB which i accidently burned... something fot the misstakes thread 
i got 40 - 50 fps in cs and with the gf2 i only got 30...
i think that driver is worth of being included as an ebuild and in the livecd, hell i thought it was just nvidia realesing drivers for linux.
whould be a nice way to support the linux gameing community 
i havent made any ebuild myself and dont have the time to learn.
edit/update
heres an ebuild i made for it right now.
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# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
#im calling the ebuild powervr-2.00.20_beta3 becuse it wont work with powervr-2.00.20-427, a "multiple version parts"
#error accures becuse thers two of '-' in the filename...
S="${WORKDIR}/${P}"
DESCRIPTION="Driver for Kyro2 cards from www.powervr.com"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.powervr.com/"
SRC_URI="http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux/powervr-2.00.20-427.tgz"
SLOT="0"
LICENSE="IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES Customer License and Evaluation Agreement"
KEYWORDS="x86"
DEPEND="virtual/linux-sources
>=sys-apps/portage-1.9.10"
src_unpack() {
unpack ${A}
}
#errors accure while building on gcc3.2, ignore them
src_compile() {
cd /var/tmp/portage/powervr-2.00.20_beta3/work/powervr-2.00.20-427/
make KERNDIR="/usr/src/linux" || die
}
src_install() {
cd /var/tmp/portage/powervr-2.00.20_beta3/work/powervr-2.00.20-427/
make install || die
dodoc README LICENSE.TXT
}
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its lame but i dont know how do do it if no cd:ing to the dir and doing make and make install. if i dont cd it tells no targets or makefiles found blbla... and the configure step is done by the developers...
suggestions.
ive wrote a "ChangeLog" and the digest and it "compiled"(built) just fine on my system.
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