From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] What are the steps to add new video drivers? In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:18:58 -0500 <20010330141900.7154B199EF@mail.cse.psu.edu> From: Mike Acar Message-Id: <20010330144610Z114469-17752+137@trolltech.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:46:04 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77925b50-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > My advice is to install Plan 9 on a machine that has a suitable video > board, then you can go through the driver development cycle in a more > friendly environment. > > Having support for Nvidea cards would be great, by the way. Indeed, I keep thinking that I'd like to take a whack at getting my TNT2 Ultra working. Unfortunately my Copious Free Time hasn't yet been copious enough to let me gather together the necessary computers; it seems like you're talking about at least three for something like a normal environment: an operational terminal for development, a file server, and a machine with the card you're developing for. -- Brilliance and gorgeousness | Mike Acar And we tell ourselves we don't want the treasures | mike@trolltech.com But we hate the glass anyway |