Xorg driver update for various cards

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skinnie
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#21 Post by skinnie »

guess there is a mistake in the description,usually tdfx drivers are used for voodoo 3,4,5 and voodoo for the voodoo 1 & 2...I didn't test the pets yet so don't know if it is the description that is wrong or the file...
But great effort :)
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#22 Post by skinnie »

Hi guys,installed the pets for tdfx driver,but I can't get xorg working..
I am using Puppy 4.3.0 with pet update for 4.3.1..
here is my xorg.conf

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Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  310   230	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "PHL"
	ModelName    "PHILIPS 107E5"
	### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
	Option	    "DPMS"
	HorizSync    30.0-71.0
	VertRefresh  50.0-85.0
	#UseModes     "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
	Option      "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
	EndSection
	
Section "Modes"
	Identifier "Modes0"
	#modes0modeline0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	### Available Driver options are:-
	### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
	### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
	### [arg]: arg optional
	#Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "UsePIO"             	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
	#Option     "NoSLI"              	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "TexturedVideo"      	# [<bool>]
	#Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "tdfx" #card0driver
	VendorName  "3Dfx Interactive, Inc."
	BoardName   "Voodoo 3"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 16
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

#PuppyHardwareProfile=3dfx_Interactive__Inc_PHILIPS107E
don't know what could be wrong...in teenpup 2009 legacy it works out of the box..
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#23 Post by mikeb »

Hmm..cirrus driver gives black screen with no clues...I guess thats why barry removed them so that vesa is used instead...support for these cards has worsened with each xorg release...the last good driver was in xf86.

But thanks for trying :)

mike

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#24 Post by zigbert »

patriot
I have included the xf86-video-ati-6.12.4-i486 driver into Puppy Stardust (for personal reasons). Thanks :) ....... Now, could you advice me to choose from the driver list. Is there more of these drivers you know users need to make Puppy fly.


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#25 Post by prehistoric »

Some time back I started to build a mini-ITX box for a (relatively) low-power Puppy system, using an Intel D201GLY motherboard with built-in Celeron 215 and SiS graphics. When I tried to get the graphics working, nothing was really satisfactory.

Recently, I dusted off that motherboard and tried again. I'm now posting from boxpup 431 on that machine, but the Puppy installation is lucky to reach 1024x768 with 16-bit color. I now have an installation of iMedia Linux 6.0.4 on the same box which I was able to coax into working flawlessly at 1600x1200 on my SGI 21" CRT. Part of the trick was copying the monitor section from the Puppy xorg.conf. Another part was simply adding "1600x1200" to the list of screen sizes (modes). Once X saw that the monitor could handle the high frequencies involved, everything worked. The changes needed were done by Nicu Pavel, and are available on-line.

Now, my big problem here is that this isn't running under Puppy 4.3.1. Their system, released in July 2008, uses a patched kernel 2.6.23 and Xorg 7.2. If I remember correctly, we are currently at kernel 2.6.30.5 and Xorg 7.1. There are good patched drivers now in Mandriva, and possibly some other distributions. Has anyone managed to move these changes into a Puppy 4.3.1 driver?

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#26 Post by TheSlider »

thanks for the drivers !

edited :

mmh, i tried installing every ati pets for my old rage mobility m1 and restarted x and puppy but it didn't seem to work.
both # glxinfo and # glxgears with xrog dri showed garbage in the console meaning it couldn't find glx extension even though my xorg conf was correct.

Later i found that i had to set the resolution to 16bits video mode to make it work so now i see those damn gears. Too bad it's so slow and choppy (around 800 frames in 5 secs = 150 fps ? Feels more like 2 fps ).

Any idea on how to use glx on 24/32 bits ?

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#27 Post by chillinfart »

Hey patriot, i have a motherboard with via CLE266 chipset. This pet works on puppy 4.3.1 w/ 2.6.30.5 kernel?

xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.904-i486.pet

If not, what dependencies are needed to compile it (i have the devx sfs mounted)?
More info here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=442434

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#28 Post by Patriot »

Hmmm .....
chillinfart wrote:Hey patriot, i have a motherboard with via CLE266 chipset. This pet works on puppy 4.3.1 w/ 2.6.30.5 kernel?

xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.904-i486.pet .....
Yes, it works on all puppy4 series (4.00 - 4.31) that came with Xorg 7.3 ... Depending on the actual vga chipset configuration, you may also want to try openchrome-0.2.903. Some people have better stability with it. In my case, 0.2.904 works better.


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#29 Post by James186282 »

I've been puzzling over getting an old laptop to work with composite video out.

Its a
M700 Armada Compaq
With a composite video connector and an Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x chipset.

I've been fiddling with atitvout and it seems that it has video out but its turned off or? Its not available as a second display (or Both) Anyway...

Should I be trying to compile a Rage128 ATI driver and fiddle with my xorg.conf file to try to use it or?! Sorry for the noobishness of this question.
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#30 Post by Darkgame »

cool. Does this drivers have 3d graphcs?

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#31 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Can I install all theses drivers for Puppy 431(Brunopuppy actually), Wary511, Wary 522, Lighthouse 5.0.3, 214X-TOP9 and Slacko 5.3 as I'm using an external LCD monitor in place of my faulty notebook screen? So far even older puppies such as 431,214X-TOP9 and Legacy OS2 cannot get xorg drivers to work despite my Acer travelmate TM630 notebook having the NV11 Geforce 2 Go chipset shared memory 16MB, which xorg probing showed is a supported NVidia cards under "nv". Using Xvesa seems to make my puppies run less stably and I couldn't run Flsynclient to configure my touchpad tapping problem in Lighthouse puppy for example. My external monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 931C,capable of much higher resoulutions and frequencies than my notebook screen. At the moment,I'm running xvesa in 1024x768x16 mode. Really hope there is a solution for me. Many thanks in advance.

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#32 Post by James186282 »

I picked up a T60 (IBM) laptop with a ATI X1400. I just switched to Lucid 5.2.8 and have tried the ATI_fglrx-10.10-Lucid *With Puppy Package Manager. It reports that it can't find a supported card.

I've been searching around and around for fix. Do I go back to an earlier fglrx version and try to compile that or? Is there some "fix" for this version that I have? Thanks to all those willing to answer my noob questions.

Nooestion?

or

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#33 Post by James186282 »

I unconfused myself. The ATI drivers are not being supported and they don't give source or hardware docs??? That (to me) is crazy. Don't you WANT a world of programmers to come up with new tricks and make your hardware look good? We live in really odd times.

Anywho I fumbled around enought to get the Radeon driver going with X.org well enough to run glxgears.
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#34 Post by greengeek »

James186282 wrote:Anywho I fumbled around enought to get the Radeon driver going with X.org well enough to run glxgears.
Hi James, any chance of listing your xorg.conf file, or some tips about what you tried to get the glxgears going? (I'm trying to grasp this "accelerated graphics" thing and trying to patch together anything that works for others) Thx.

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#35 Post by James186282 »

Sorry I never responded to that message. The company I worked at had a corporate meltdown and my Laptop got snatched so I didn't know how I did it. *Which seems to be a common situation.
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