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Hello,

> > Unlike macppc and sparc, shark uses VGA mode 3 (i.e. text mode)
> > for its console like i386. Can Xwsfb handle it?
>=20
> We can always switch it to use igsfb(4) (just kidding ;).
>=20
> CyberPro driver would be a nice thing to have.  The card is in the
> Netwinder too.  Are there any docs sample code on how to write an
> xfree driver?  Everytime I look at X sources (especially the infamous
> compiler.h) I feel like I've drank a six-pack of cursed potions of
> confusion.

Well, I wrote a pnozz driver by stealing the basic structure from suncg6
and fill in the bits to handle a P9100. A PCI driver shouldn't be much
more difficult, there are a few rather simple examples. Just avoid ati
which tries to handle any mach64, Rage 128 and Radeon board under the
sun, instead look at apm, probably tdfx - these don't have to do much
special-casing. For acceleration suncg6 and pnozz might be suitably
simple examples as well although they either don't do the mode switching
( cg6 ) or don't do it right yet ( pnozz only supports switching colour
depth but no real video mode programming ). Both support a hardware
cursor though.

have fun
Michael

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