Author: Johan Klockars (ctfs.celsiustech.se)
Date: 01-24-2002 21:22
> There are already developments for new
> graphics cards, I think maybe a Voodoo or
> something. However I do not think that
Sort of (well, I guess there might be something I've not heard of too).
I did start work on a driver for the Voodoo series quite some time ago, but got stuck due to a technical problem. That problem has been solved now, but I've been busy with other things, unfortunately.
I have acquired most of the PCI cards I'm interested in developing drivers for (around 8 of them, I think), but...
(Finding new PCI video cards is not all that easy, but there's a lot of old stuff on the various Internet auction sites.)
> there will be much more than the standard
> operations, 3D functions is a lot of
> driver code that someone needs to write.
The nice thing about the Voodoo cards is that complete documentation (up to at least the Voodoo 3, I'm not sure about the Voodoo 4/5) is available. That is not the case for most other cards, unfortunately.
Regarding the 3D code, it should be possible to make good use of the XFree86v4 DRI drivers.
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