Alessandro Temil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Rewrite the i810 driver so it bypasses the BIOS like the Windows > > driver does. I'm not aware whether Intel would provide the required > > documentation to the the open source community. > > This was the thing i'm inquiring on. Intel seemed to be more > collaborative, they promptly replied that the problem was submitted > to the software engineers, but after that i had no more news. I'll > write them asking for the documentation, i don't think there is > any broken industrial secret with publishing the correct register > addresses that drive the video mode change, i hope to get some > response soon.
Good luck. We are on Intel's Plan of Record (POR) and develop their OS/2 display drivers on behalf of IBM. To date we have not received the informaiton necessary to program the graphics hardware without the Video BIOS, both due to to technical reasons (need to add ADD cards seamlessly) as well as IP protection reasons. We have been trying for the last two years to get this information, but without any luck. If you do manage to get the information necessary, I would be very interested ;-) Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
