newbie question

2 messages, 2 authors, 2003-03-10 · open the first message on its own page

newbie question

From: ayachi gherissi <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-09 17:22:48

hi  i'm newbie in framebuffer driver development

i have a graphics card siliconmotion 721 (Lynx3DM) i want to make the framebuffer driver i get the spec of the card

i take cyber2000fb driver and i start modifying it


i activate pci burst 
    enable linear memory
    get memory size
    calculate vclck
    calculate mclck  

i know that each hardware is specfic
my question is
what other general steps related to hardware
must i done to get things work

thank's


 



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Re: newbie question

From: Antonino Daplas <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-10 02:09:07

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 01:21, ayachi gherissi wrote:
hi  i'm newbie in framebuffer driver development

i have a graphics card siliconmotion 721 (Lynx3DM) i want to make the framebuffer driver i get the spec of the card

i take cyber2000fb driver and i start modifying it


i activate pci burst 
    enable linear memory
    get memory size
    calculate vclck
    calculate mclck  

i know that each hardware is specfic
my question is
what other general steps related to hardware
must i done to get things work
You also need to modify the registers that determines the video mode
(ie, 1024x768 at 85 Hz), the type of colorspace (RGB, 8, 16, 24, 32
bit/pseudocolor, truecolor, directcolor etc), and the hardware color
look-up table (if using pseudocolor, directcolor).

Tony




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