I've been following GGI development for a long time, and it seems that
one of the major issues holding the project back is the lack of support
for almost any graphics cards.
I'm interested in working on drivers (is drivers the correct term?) for
the cards I have: a RIVA 128 and a GeForce (both nVidia chips). I know
there is an existing driver included in GGI, but I've never been able
to make it work, and it seems that most other people can't, either. I
also recall hearing that the newer XFree drivers are from a different
code base.
In my experience, when someone asks me how to learn about something
like this (college students often ask me to "teach them to program"), I
tell them the only way to learn is by *doing* it.
I'm a fairly competent programmer (or at least I like to think so :P),
but I have no experience with hardware. I don't even know where to
start. Is there a place where I could begin?
- A book I should buy, or a document I could read?
- A smaller (but related) project, that might be easier?
I've heard that documentation of nVidia products basically doesn't
exist. Is this true?
I'd be pretty pleased if I could even write something that would pop my
video card in and out of a video mode. Even more would be better,
though. :)
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Evan Martin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://students.washington.edu/eeyem
