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From: "Richard Greenblott" <reggreen@ne.mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:24 -0500

Let me know if you need help with the development. I would be happy to
assist.

Thanks:
Rick G.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jmk@pla...>
Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nvidia video driver


> On Fri Mar 30 21:19:25 EST 2001, nickw@pob... 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