From emr1!nott!bnrgate!corpgate!crchh327.bnr.ca!news!conn Wed Jul 20 18:40:47 1994 Path: emr1!nott!bnrgate!corpgate!crchh327.bnr.ca!news!conn From: conn@crchh76.bnr.ca (Bill Conn) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: WD90c33 card Date: 14 Jul 1994 03:29:33 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX Lines: 76 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: crchh76.bnr.ca In-reply-to: g.frensel@et.tudelft.nl's message of 12 Jul 1994 08:30:06 CDT In article g.frensel@et.tudelft.nl (Gerhard Frensel) writes: > I'd like to Run XFree86 but have a Western Digital/Paradise WD90c33 card. From > the HOWTO I understand there is no support for this chipset by the generic > servers. > But if someone has this 90c33 card running I am interested in: > 1) How can it be done and > 2) The specific Xconfig settings > Thanks Gerhard This is about my changes to the pvga1 driver that allow the WD90C33 graphics chip to work with Xfree86. Support for screen to screen Bit Blitting in hardware is included. Unlike the previous version, this version should work with cards that have up to 2 Mbyte of video RAM. The previous version did funny things to the display when the mouse was near the top of the screen if the card had 2 Mbytes of video Ram. In response to some user's requests, I have included in the '.tgz' file an Xconfig file that contains only the settings I use. Use at your own risk, there is a potential that these settings could damage your monitor. /anonymous@arthur.phys.virginia.edu:/pub: total 913 -rw-r--r-- 1 100 444767 Jun 28 09:14 drwxrwxrwx 2 100 512 Jun 28 09:00 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 100 512 Jun 15 1993 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 100 444767 Jun 24 23:01 XF86_SVGA.wd90c33.2M.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 100 14593 Jun 24 23:01 wd90c33.2m.tgz The 'XF86_SVGA.wd90c33.2M.gz' file contains the compiled server I am using with my Linux system. For people who want the source code, it is in 'wd90c33.2m.tgz'. I am sending these changes to the Xfree86 team for incorporation in future releases. After using 'gunzip' to decompress the XF86_SVGA.wd90c33.gz file do something like the following: bash# pwd /usr/X11/bin bash# rm X bash# ln -s /usr/X11/lib/Server/XF86_SVGA.wd90c33 /usr/X11/bin/X bash# ls -l /usr/X11/bin/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jun 27 21:18 /usr/X11/bin/X -> /usr/X11/lib/Server/XF86_SVGA.wd90c33 bash# You should then be able to type 'startx' as root. The '.tgz' file is only needed if you must compile from source. It also has an Xconfig file I use. To uncompress type: 'tar zxvf wd90c33.2M.tgz' I have a file on my Linux: /usr/X11/lib/Server/VGADriverDoc/VGADriver.Doc that explains how to build a driver. Maybe it is on your system too. Enjoy. Let me know how it works for you. -- *------------------------------*---------------------------------------------* | William (Bill) Conn _ | Phone: ESN (444) 4870 or (214) 684-4870 | | Bell Northern Research_| ~- | UNIX: conn crchh76 (alias bolivar) | | 2201 Lakeside Blvd. \, _}| IP#: 47.122.64.98 | | Richardson, TX 75082 \( |Internet: conn@bnr.ca | | Department 2B77 MS D202 | Fax: ESN (444) 3704 or (214) 684-3704 | *------------------------------*---------------------------------------------*