Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

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