Possible TGA2 support?

[Tomasz Mloduchowski]

I'm quite eager to try - it's not a blocking problem, as I can put in
(running now) some S3-based card, and it will work.

However I feel like soon we will see a lot of modern Alphas hitting
and flooding ebay - with demise of windows NT linux or *BSD are only
OS in cost range of enthusiasts - and general performance of the box
is quite good as for 600MHz box.

Also, according to DEC-provided leaflet I got with this box (second
hand) TGA2 performs better in 2d operations than Voodoo3, so it's by
no means a crappy card. Add maximum supported resolution of 2048x1576
and fast data bus.

And, this card may work in PC computers (probably) - at least the ones
with PCI64 bus (some PII-PIII server boards - again, hitting ebay now)


So, anyway, I'd be happy to try, but I quite newb in the area.

Tomasz


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:24:48 -0800, Stuart Kreitman
<Stuart.Kreitman at sun.com> wrote:
> wow, blast from the past. Somewhere buried in the dec-compaq-hp archives
> are archives
> of the specs and code that would help you.
> Realistically, please be advised that the ability of anyone to help you
> is severly limited by
> the low availability of your out of print platform and the possible
> non-existance of
> anyone with access to those archives.
> 
> If you are sincere about trying this work (with more emphasis on "try"
> than "complete")
> we can try to find the access you need.
> 
> Alternatively, there must be a pci graphics card that is well supported
> by Xorg and works in your
> system, modulo video bios issues related to Alpha processor PALcode and
> emulation of bios
> operation.
> 
> skk
> 
> Tomasz Mloduchowski wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have DEC Miata running Linux, equipped with DEC PBXGB [TGA2] (rev
> >22) card, which is not yet supported by xorg.
> >
> >It's a (supposedly) high performance GFX card, on PCI64 bus, with some
> >3d features.
> >
> >Would someone be interested in writing a driver for it? (there is
> >driver for TGA, but not TGA2)
> >
> >I will try to help as well as I can, but I am afraid I can't do it
> >completely on my own (never wrote, or even looked at, any xorg's
> >code).
> >
> >Or maybe it's something simple?
> >
> >Additional info (/proc/pci, Xorg.0.log) can be found here:
> >http://mlodutb.mit.edu/miata/
> >
> >Tomasz
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> >
> 
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