Re: Diamond Monster 3D PCI problems

Michael Dale Long (mlong@long.dyn.ml.org)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 21:33:52 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Martin Mares wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, it's too late to try to work-around these problem in the
> kernel before 2.2 comes out. I already know I'll have to make the new PCI
> code I plan for 2.3 support assigning of addresses to devices where BIOS
> scamped his job. If LinuxGlide doesn't use the new 2.1 PCI functions yet,
> there is a simple solution: use setpci to set the address to some sensible
> value manually. In other cases, the best solution would be to tell the
> LinuxGlide maintainers they should contact me.

LinuxGlide when running as root uses it's own PCI routines, which break on
my machine under normal conditions. If it's not root, it uses /dev/3dfx,
which is powered by a kernel module that Daryl puts out. Unfortunately
right now it is 2.0 specific. The maintainer is planning on putting out
a 2.1 version when he gets the time but he also develops the Linux support
for other 3Dfx chipsets/cards and is understandable busy. I will contact
him about the status 2.1 support and go from there.

Thanks.

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