Does Gentoo come/install Kyro drivers

Scarecrow · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 5

anyone?

thx

klieber · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 11:43 am Post subject:

Searching the portage tree for kyro should answer that question, dontcha think?

AFAIK, no, Gentoo doesn't have Kyro drivers.

--kurt
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SNo0py · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 5:41 am Post subject:

Hm... but I have a KyroII-Card...

So: what schould I do? I want X...

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Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

A quick Googleing led me to this (had to go through a German message board to get there):

http://216.239.35.120/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.powervr.com/Release.asp%3FID%3D33&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkyro%2BII%2Blinux%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8

Which seems to be a beta driver (last posted April 2002) which supports Kyro II in Linux. I won't vouch that it will work, because I don't have a Kyro myself, but it claims to. There's no ebuild for it, though, so you'll have to download the source tgz http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux/powervr-2.00.20-234.tgz extract and build yourself (or make an ebuild yourself if you want other kyro users to have one at a later date).

Other than that, in xf86config, you'll just have to choose the generic vesa/svga compatible card, because Kyro II didn't seem to be in the database when I checked (not entirely sure, though). Once you have a XF86Config file, you'll probably have to modify it to take advantage of the above drivers somehow.

Good luck.

P.S. To the moderators: I'm not entirely sure, but I think this was cross-posted in another category (desktop environments) so you might want to freeze one or both of the threads.
Edit: Zoom: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2094&highlight=kyro
Also has apparently useful information on using Kyros.
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Malakin · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 6:57 am Post subject:

http://www.powervr.com/Drivers/Linux/README.txt
http://www.powervr.com/Downloads.asp

SNo0py · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:27 am Post subject:

The powervr-drivers are working fine!

Work througt the README.txt and search these forums for a "bug" within the sources!!
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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

i have run these powervr-linux drivers, they work well with my hercules kyro2 card...
nice

still does not perform as well as the gf2mx in linux though, prob a driver issue of coarse, BUT the drivers do work!

SNo0py · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 8:00 am Post subject: Re: read Melain's post

orkid · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 7:32 pm Post subject:

yeah, the performanec isn't what it could be, i think. afaik, the card runs using pci not agp under the current (2.00.234 ?) linux drivers. I think I read this in the README or something included with the package. Hopefully an 'agp-enabled' driver will be out shortly.

-Mike