Ani Joshi wrote: > > I have recently updated my XFree86 tree to 4.0.2 with my updated > drivers. Here are some notes which will be usefull: > > * Accelerated drivers which are now "ppc safe" in my tree include: > ATI Mach64 > ATI Rage128/Pro/Mobility > 3Dfx Banshee > 3Dfx Voodoo3 > 3Dfx Voodoo5 > IMS TwinTurbo 128/3D > Matrox Millenium (other Matrox cards may also work but only the > Millenium was used, feedback would be nice from gX00 users)
Let me add that the glint driver (for Permedia2 and 3 and other 3Dlabs chips) should work as well, even right out of XFree86 CVS. > The only remaining chipset which I have immediate plans to support on PPC > is the ATI Radeon, for which the PCI version will hopefully be arriving my > way soon. If you wish to have any other chipset supported please email me > about it. > > * 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5 users will have to apply > the attatched > patches: tdfx-2.2.patch.gz and pciconfig.patch > * Voodoo5 users only have 8bpp working at the moment, I am still tracking > this buglet down > * Matrox users will temporarily be stuck in 8bpp due to a PCI kernel bug > which will hopefully be solved soon. This all sounds very good, but I'm concerned about getting this integrated into XFree86. I'd hate to see this become the same as with the Linux kernel, having several trees with features spread everywhere. What are your plans about this? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
