XFree86: Voodoo/Voodoo2 Driver

[Martin Alderson]

On 19 Feb 2004, at 00:53, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> Wish you could do something with your old Voodoo or Voodoo2 graphics 
> cards ?
> Unable to find tools old enough to build Glide2 ?
> Unable to port Glide2 to your new system ?
> Want to use the 2D accelerator on the Voodoo2 ?
> Want render acceleration ?
>
> The department of retro-optimisation(*) proudly presents the 1.0 Beta 
> release
> of a Voodoo and Voodoo2 driver for XFree86 4.3.
>
> -	640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 - and custom non glide modes
> -	1024x768 on non-SLI Voodoo2
> -	DGA
> -	2D acceleration of most operations on Voodoo2
> -	Render acceleration (Voodoo2)
> -	No glide library needed
> -	Supports SLI configurations although it doesnt use SLI
>
> No DRI (yet), although if the folks hacking Glide3 can get Voodoo1/2 
> working
> again that should be possible to do. No Xv (anyone know about YAB 
> texture
> formats so I can use them for YUV422/YCbCr ?) and no pixcache at the 
> moment.
>
> It may also have endian issues so I'd love to hear from parisc hackers
> how well it works.
>
> And you thought it was just another old dead video card...
>
> 	ftp://people.redhat.com/alan/XFree86/Voodoo
>
> including a compiled driver mode for Fedora Core 1 and 2T1.
>
> I'd appreciate Fedora feedback on this hardware so I can tell if I
> should try and get Mike Harris to merge it for FC2..
>
> Alan

Alan, will this make it into FC2? I'm curious (don't own a Voodoo card 
myself but know a few peeps that do).

Martin Alderson,
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