----- Forwarded message from Andrew Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:30:13 -0500
> From: Andrew Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Question about mach64/DRI/Kernel 2.6
> To: Jos� Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Oops, sorry about the blank message---cold fingers hit wrong keys.
>
>
> >>>>> "Jos�" == Jos� Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jos�> I don't recall hearing any success using mach64 with kernel
> Jos�> 2.6, and I don't know exactly what does it takes to make it
> Jos�> work. It's probably not much besides backporting some
> Jos�> changes from the trunk into the mach64 branch. But in
> Jos�> anycase I don't have the time to find that out right now.
>
> I've had it working under 2.6 for awhile. Didn't require much
> effort, but what I did was a quick hack. I took a recent snapshot of
> the Rage driver, moved the mach64 code into the rage drm directory,
> and then made necessary changes. Here is a tar file with the diffs
> for the mach64 specific code:
>
>
>
> There are likely a few other problems:
> 1) mach64.h now requires the PCI_IDS for each card. I only added
> one for my specific card ("ATI Rage LT Pro AGP-133"). Other cards
> need to be added.
>
> 2) Since I did this in such a stupid way (I was in a hurry) I modified
> a few other files (drmP.h, drm_drv.h, drm_pci.h, drm_irq.h,
> Makefile.linux, Makefile.kernel), from the rage snapshot binary
> package but I don't have the originals, and the Rage snapshots
> don't seem to be available at the moment. So I am attaching these
> files complete rather than the diffs:
>
>
>
> And its possible that I made some other changes as well, and just
> don't remember (I did this many months ago).
>
> Hope some of this is helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
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