On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Tothwolf wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Tothwolf wrote: > > > > > Is anyone familiar enough with the S3 driver to be able to give me > > > some pointers as to what I'll need to do in order to get the 526 > > > working? I tried simply adding the 526 to the list of supported > > > ramdacs, but that got me little more than a dead screen, requiring a > > > reboot. > > > > The XFree86 developer FTP site (which appears to be unavailable at the > > moment) has the register specs for the RGB 526, including about 3 pages > > describing the differences from the 524. > > That is exactly the kind of documentation I was looking for. Google didn't > turn up anything however, and I was even considering calling up IBM's chip > division to see about a databook... > > Are/were there other databooks and such on that site that would help with > the other S3 chipsets and ramdacs?
Quite a bit, although I don't know how much of it covers hardware that is already supported: S3_Trio64V+.pdf S3_Trio64V2_DX_GX.pdf S3_ViRGE_DX_GX.pdf S3_ViRGE_GX2.pdf docs for 6 IBM RGBnnn, 4 Ti TVP30nn, and a couple of other RAMDACs. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
