[Dri-devel] Ok, how to get started hacking...

2002-11-26 Thread Ian Molton
Hi. Well, I have a Voodoo3 3000 PCI now thanks to Martin Spott, and am preparing to remove the GLIDE dependencies from the driver (thats why I have the card). So, where to start? I have the card installed and working (2d), but havent quite gotten things working - you see, I have a radeon 9000 as

Re: [Dri-devel] Ok, how to get started hacking...

2002-11-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:59, Ian Molton wrote: the /only/ way I have gotten things to work at all without crashing (solid!) is to run two completely seperate X servers. this works, but only one display will work at a time - switching between them turns the other one off (even if it just left

Re: [Dri-devel] Ok, how to get started hacking...

2002-11-26 Thread Jon Smirl
--- Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Voodoo3 needs to be your primary display or it doesnt work dual head. My 4500 works dual head if its primary I have a similar problem when using a PCI Rage128 with any AGP card. When booting the system BIOS executes the primary video card's BIOS

Re: [Dri-devel] Ok, how to get started hacking...

2002-11-26 Thread Ian Molton
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:52:31 -0800 (PST) Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would PCI cards work right as secondary displays if the init code in the video BIOS was executed by X when the driver gets initialized? Or is this a more complicated problem having to do with plug and play OSs and