I don't know if this fits here, but I've tried other areas and didn't
get a response, so I figured you people here may be able to help me...
:)
I installed Linux v2.1.55 about two weeks ago. (as a side note, I
already love it far more than DOS). However, to my dismay, the SVGALib
that came with it doesn't include support for my graphics card, an ATI
Mach64 GT (as reported by XFree86). I dug around in the readme files and
found out that the person working on the driver--one Asad Hanif--hasn't
gotten the driver to actually WORK yet. I tried contacting him, but it's
been three weeks without a response, and I must assume that he no longer
is on the project.
Any help here would be appreciated. Is the driver now under someone
else? Or can Hanif be reached by other means? Also, if no one is working
on it, I'd like to give it a stab, but I have no idea how to go about
programming for Linux (I have a lot of programming experience...under
MS-DOS), and especially to interface correctly with both the kernel and
SVGALib.
To sum it up: HELP!!!!
Regards,
Mathew Burrack
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with a boxcar on its back, but only just.
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I don't know if this fits here, but I've tried other areas and didn't get a response, so I figured you people here may be able to help me... :)
I installed Linux v2.1.55 about two weeks ago. (as
a side note, I already love it far more than DOS). However, to my dismay,
the SVGALib that came with it doesn't include support for my graphics card,
an ATI Mach64 GT (as reported by XFree86). I dug around in the readme files
and found out that the person working on the driver--one Asad Hanif--hasn't
gotten the driver to actually WORK yet. I tried contacting him, but it's
been three weeks without a response, and I must assume that he no longer
is on the project.
Any help here would be appreciated. Is the driver
now under someone else? Or can Hanif be reached by other means? Also, if
no one is working on it, I'd like to give it a stab, but I have no idea
how to go about programming for Linux (I have a lot of programming experience...under
MS-DOS), and especially to interface correctly with both the kernel and
SVGALib.
To sum it up: HELP!!!!
Regards,
Mathew Burrack
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows: faster than a dead sea turtle crawling up the
beach with a boxcar on its back, but only just.
-- graffiti
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