On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:26 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote: > chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have an old ThinkPad 750P. It uses the WD90C24 chip, which was in > > the old svga driver. > > > > What would it take to port that to the new XFree86 code? I'm not above > > writing assembly code or digging in here, I just don't know where to > > start or how much effort it might take... swatting a fly or eating an > > elephant? > > Holy moly! You have a whopping 1 megabyte of video RAM there. > > Will it work with the VESA fb driver? If not, then you might as well > give up. I have the source code for their old Windows 3.1 driver, and > it is more than 76,000 lines of 16-bit x86 assembler. The blitter > provided virtually no acceleration, so you won't really be giving > anything up to use the fb driver. > I thought I was the last cave man. I used a WD90C30 with the svga driver in 4.4 when I ported the HGA driver. You're either looking at flies or my binoculars flipped over in the last 12 months. Enjoy Lee Olsen lee@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
