Hi. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:16:23 -0800 "Rune Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Egbert Eich: > > Hm, doesn't sound too good. The problem about the sis driver is: > > We have no decend documentation for the SiS 630. Even if we did > > we'd have a hard time: the code that sets up the chip was provided by > > SiS. What they did was very simple: they translated their i86 machine > > language BIOS code to C. The code looks horrible! It retreives Yes it is really dirty. > > register values from tables in the BIOS and writes them to the chip. > > It is very likely that later versions of the BIOS do some things the > > BIOS that served as base for this code didn't do. > > > What happened when you used the old driver - without my patches? For the newer sis chips / bios version we had to disable the mode-switching and let the VESA-framebuffer initialize the chip. - I spend many hours debugging in the stupid sis_bios.[h,c] ... , too. I have a short info page: http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/sis630/index.html I tryed to get docu from sis - even considering signing a NDA - but suddely the email thread with them stopped ... ? - They so not seem to be interessted in getting they chip to work properly under Linux ... > > Regards, > > Egbert. Much fun anyway Ren� Rebe -- Ren� Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s712059/index.html Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
