From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Alexander C. Deztroyer" <alex-sci@freenet.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 3dfx banshee
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:44:37 +0000
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I suggest you have a look at: vgadb(6) and vga(8)

I haven't play with the vgadb yet. But I think it might be the problem of
the kernel. Because it might need special driver to contorl the chip set(s).

Good luck
Alex

<jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote in message
news:20001220140853.10BEA199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu...
> vonstroheim@my-deja.com:
> Has anybody manage to use a 3dfx banshee PCI card with plan9 ?
>
> I modified the vgadb file to force the use of the voodoo3 driver but it
> failed.
> I got the following message (dumped in vgainfo.txt):
>
> main->snarf
> vga->snarf
> 3dfx->snarf
> sequencer->enter on
> sequencer->leave on
> 3dfx: unknown chip - DID 0003
>
> I've not tried this as I don't have a Banshee, but I believe it will
> work if you add the chip id in the two places it matters, i.e. in both
> /sys/src/9/pc/vga3dfx.c and /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga/3dfx.c look for all
> cases of
>
> case 0x0005: /* Avenger (a.k.a. Voodoo3) */
>
> and add
>
> case 0x0003: /* Banshee */
>
> (make sure tyou get them all, there's motre than one in the kernel
> driver).
>
> Let me know if it works and I'll add it into the distribution.
> Good luck.
>
> --jim