From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: X windows video card support? Date: 6 May 1992 00:44:52 GMT
In article <u+@byu.edu> skousong@bones.caedm.byu.edu (gary b skouson) writes:
> I looked at the files for X386 and it looked like the only
>(well almost only) chipset that is suported is the et4000. I happen
>to have a Trident 8900 (I know, I should have looked into things before
>I bought it). How much work is it to change things to support this card?
src/mit/server/ddx/x386/drivers needs a t8900 driver, and
src/mit/server/ddx/x386/vga.c needs an entry in the
vgaVideoChipPtr Drivers[] array.
Mostly, the only difference between different SVGA chip sets from the
programmer's perspective is how the bank switching and initialization
is handled.
>First of all, how much disk space do I need to just get the video
>support and then link with the rest? Also how much of the X386 stuff
>depends on the et4000? I haven't hacked too much on video stuff, but
Very little.