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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:20:32 -0400
From: jmk@achille.cs.bell-labs.com jmk@achille.cs.bell-labs.com
Subject: adaptec 2940
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it's a funny old world - this morning i awoke to mail from ngr asking if
i had any adaptec docs, he felt compelled to write a driver. and yesterday i
finished a first pass on the virge chip for aux/vga (it's just a trio64 more
or less, there's a little twiddling to get the cursor working above 1024x768;
the /vx chip will require a little more fiddling but i don't have one of
those to try. in fact, if you are prepared to do without the hardware cursor
above 1024x768 you can just give the ctlr entry in /lib/vgadb for your card
as 'trio64' and it should work).

--jim

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>>P.S. S3 very kindly sent me the full details on their ViRGE chip;
>>at least some companies are being good to developers...

i've always found S3 and their associates very helpful indeed,
with reasonable programming manuals sent by return of post.

the good thing about the PC world is that for any interesting function
you can usually find at least one decent card or device for which its manufacturer
can provided usable documentation.