From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <008401c0b9dd$a9be35e0$1e8c1e42@ne.mediaone.net> From: "Richard Greenblott" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010331033749.9A438199F4@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:24 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77e39a2e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Let me know if you need help with the development. I would be happy to assist. Thanks: Rick G. ----- Original Message ----- From: Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver > On Fri Mar 30 21:19:25 EST 2001, nickw@pobox.com wrote: > > I had a bit of spare time and hacked up a driver for my TNT (NV4) video > > card. It doesnt do hardware accelleration (hw cursor works tho), and Ive > > only been playing with 8bit modes, but it seems to work for me now in > > the > > few modes ive tried (not that I understand why all the time). > > I was going to post it when I cleaned it up and tested it a bit more, > > but that got interrupted by my move back to aus. > > Hopefully, it should pretty much work for other NV4 based cards (TNT2, > > etc..), and NV10 cards (Geforce, Geforce2) require a little bit more > > work at least. In the next couple of weeks I should be able to get back > > onto it, and may even try getting a Geforce2 MX to work. > > > > > > > > Nick > > That would be great. Often it's just getting over the initial hurdle > of slogging through whatever documentation you have and trying to match > it to what you see when you dump the registers; the boost from seeing > pixels on the screen change when you hit a key is usually encouragement > enough to finish the job. > > There are enough people out there with Nvidia cards that once you let > them loose on the code I'm sure it'll progress to cover all the parts > you didn't get to. > > --jim