Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2002, Steven J. Hill wrote: > >>Kevin D. Kissell wrote: >> >>>I'd like to get a video-capable graphics card up >>>and running on a MIPS Malta board (therefore >>>PCI), ideally something mainstream like ATI. >>>Does anyone on the list have any positive or >>>negative recommendations in terms of cards >>>and particularly in terms of the degree to which >>>the drivers (and PCI set-up) have been ported >>>to MIPS/Linux? I'll do what I must, but I hate >>>re-inventing the wheel. >>> >>> >>I can think of two things. First, a lot of graphics cards >>rely on BIOS calls to be set up before the operating system >>even boots. Second, I would stick to graphics cards that >>have framebuffer support in the kernel as you stand at least >>half a chance that those cards don't rely so heavily on a >>peecee bios. Just my $.02. >> > > Even then, most frame buffer device drivers rely on the firmware (PC BIOS or > SPARC/PPC Open Firmware) having set up the video card. > > One of the exceptions is matroxfb, Steve Longerbeam has a fb driver with BIOS init for ATI Xpert98 card, which you can still buy. Dan Malek also wrote a driver for MQ200. If you ask around, I am sure you can the patch somewhere. For a while, I also had 3dfx voodoo3 working. Not sure about its status now. You can find the patch at http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/. Jun
