Ron, We got keyboard working properly on SiS 630 with the pseduo code we sent to you. Again, we can reach kernel_thread(init, ...) and beyond. The C source code and rom image will ge sent in a seperate mail.
You mentioned in a post that you can get monitor on ?? Which frame buffer device did you use ?? sisfb ?? How did you do that ?
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ollie Lho wrote:
You mentioned in a post that you can get monitor on ?? Which frame buffer device did you use ?? sisfb ?? How did you do that ?
No, I am not using sisfb at present since it did not work (oops). I plugged a matrox millenium into my pci bus.
Interesting thought: It's very easy if you're using linuxbios to have lots of display cards. I am probably going to take the sis630 MB once it is running linuxbios correctly, put four cards into it, and replace my 20" monitor with 4 14" lcd displays and try to run a multi-headed X. I'm not sure how you do this with xfree86 but it ought to work -- it worked 10 years ago on a sun3 ...
ron p.s. If you put the matrox into a standard L440GX running Intel's bios, the BIOS will detect the extra display card and ... execute a HLT instruction. Stupid BIOS!
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Don't forget if you have an arium: look in System.map for the log_buf, and view that memory. You can easily watch printk output at that point. Makes debugging go MUCH faster.
ron
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Ronald G Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ollie Lho wrote:
You mentioned in a post that you can get monitor on ?? Which framebuffer device did you use ?? sisfb ?? How did you do that ?
No, I am not using sisfb at present since it did not work (oops). I plugged a matrox millenium into my pci bus.
Interesting thought: It's very easy if you're using linuxbios to have lots of display cards. I am probably going to take the sis630 MB once it is running linuxbios correctly, put four cards into it, and replace my 20" monitor with 4 14" lcd displays and try to run a multi-headed X. I'm not sure how you do this with xfree86 but it ought to work -- it worked 10 years ago on a sun3 ...
Yep it works :)
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ollie Lho wrote:
You mentioned in a post that you can get monitor on ?? Which framebuffer device did you use ?? sisfb ?? How did you do that ?
No, I am not using sisfb at present since it did not work (oops). I plugged a matrox millenium into my pci bus.
Which version of kernel ?? 2.4.0 and letter works fine for me.
Interesting thought: It's very easy if you're using linuxbios to have lots of display cards. I am probably going to take the sis630 MB once it is running linuxbios correctly, put four cards into it, and replace my 20" monitor with 4 14" lcd displays and try to run a multi-headed X. I'm not sure how you do this with xfree86 but it ought to work -- it worked 10 years ago on a sun3 ...
Great !! another AMAZING thing we can show off once we made it.
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Ollie Lho wrote:
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ollie Lho wrote:
You mentioned in a post that you can get monitor on ?? Which framebuffer device did you use ?? sisfb ?? How did you do that ?
No, I am not using sisfb at present since it did not work (oops). I plugged a matrox millenium into my pci bus.
Which version of kernel ?? 2.4.0 and letter works fine for me.
Interesting thought: It's very easy if you're using linuxbios to have lots of display cards. I am probably going to take the sis630 MB once it is running linuxbios correctly, put four cards into it, and replace my 20" monitor with 4 14" lcd displays and try to run a multi-headed X. I'm not sure how you do this with xfree86 but it ought to work -- it worked 10 years ago on a sun3 ...
Great !! another AMAZING thing we can show off once we made it.
;-) Actually XFree86 3.3.x has been able to do multi-head with matroxfb FBDev for a while now.
XFree86 4.x includes a "softbooter" which initializes non-primary cards by executing their VGA BIOS, and being _very_ careful to make sure that only one PCI card can claim the VGA region at any given time.
Jeff
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