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Technix · Last edited by Technix on Thu Nov 28, 2002 11:51 am; edited 1 time in total

That's right... TBJ has arranged an interview with Rudolf Cornelissen and Thoma Kurschel, and we're asking for your help.

Rudolf is the author of the (open)BeOS Matrox MGA driver, located here:

http://www.bebits.com/app/3080

Thomas is the author of the ATI Radeon graphics driver, located here:
http://www.bebits.com/app/2938

Please post any questions you may have in this forum, and we will compile the top 10 interesting ones, along with a few of our own to keep things fun.

(EDIT) We'll wait until the end of the year before collecting questions... (EDIT)

Good luck!
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Kancept · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:39 pm Post subject: Future work

I run a G400 dualhead in my main BeOS machine. I haven't gotten hardware overlay to work no matter which app I use or which option (like magic overlay in nplay). Is this a limitation of the apps or a limitation of the driver, and will this ever get fixed in either case? I've been building a machine of lesser parts that's been running fine, so if I can't get any overlay going, I might put that SiS card back in and sell my good cards off.

lichtgestalt · Pencil Pusher Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 35 Location: KDL

OK, not too many questions here already...
Let's try these:
Where did you get all the infos/specs to write the Matrox driver? Is everything freely available or do you have a special contact to the Matrox guys? What about coding drivers for future models, assuming you'd be provided with a card and the infos for those are also available?
You seem to be quite into hardware tinkering. Ever thought about looking into a USB-Geekport etc. as Michael Phipps suggested in the latest OBOS newsletter?

Hmmm, can't think of more right now.

scottmc · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 9:59 pm Post subject:

Have you thought about working on 3D in the future?

-scottmc

pasha · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 2:50 pm Post subject: DV-I Support for the Matrox G550?

I saw a BeOS machine working with a G550 Card on a TFT Display. Although both components had DV-I Connectors, no access was possible through BeOS, so Analog out had to be used.
As you might know, DV-I is the better solution for TFT Display.
Will there be any support ?
Regards

P.S.: same goes to the ATI RadeON for Thomas'Driver as well

.
since you can get a good Radeon-Chip based Card with DV-I for lesst than 100$....
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pasha

I tested a bundled UDMA 133 Controller of Maxtor, which are included in a 160 GB Retail Drive Kit on BeOS (Promise Ultra133 Chip).
Guess what - the Disks could be properly mounted with the IDE Replacement Driver.
And guesss more - the HD showed about 152,7 GB of usable space - which means UDMA Mode 6 is supported with this driver (UDMA 100 only mapps ~ 132 GB...).
Regards..
P.S.: you need the bfs driver of Dano to initialize partitions larger than 60 GB ;-\
Didn't tried OpenBFS yet....Hopefully they respect this fact

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mariux · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject:

you people rock!
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mikesum32 · NewBe Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 8

Will you, or anyone else be working on the old video capture drivers for radeons?

How about a start from scratch?

Mictlantecuhtli · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 12:52 pm Post subject:

How about Matrox Parhelia support?

pasha

The IDE Replacement works fine (although there is frequent Resets on the bus).
How about U160/U320 - SCSI Support?
Will there be any at least for OBOS?
Regards....
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