Peter, The status of the current Mach64 driver is very well documented by Leif on it's homepage, http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_status.html. As you can see there, things aren't yet finished but are shaping up. There is a problem though: so far no attempt has been made to get it running on non-x86 machines. Support the PPC shouldn't be such a big endeavour since the three subsystems that a DRI driver is based are already available for your platform (the Linux kernel, XFree86 and Mesa), and the DRI kernel module is also PowerPC aware. With your help testing surely it will be a reality sooner, nevertheless you'll have to be patient considering that the driver is still under heavy development and the developers are working on this on free time.
The first thing that we'll need is that you download the CVS tree and build it. You'll need kernel 2.4.x and XFree 4.1.0+ for this. Leif also has a mini HOWTO on this on http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_HOWTO.html. It will surely fail to build but we'll get started from that. Later on we might also get the PowerPC system of SourceForge to do some nightly builds for you. Even though you're no programmer, since you're gonna have a rough time testing it all by yourself, please make a quick reading of the DRI-Devel-FAQ at http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/faq so that you get more familiar with the terms and to be able to grasp the mechanisms how this works (and why eventually it doesn't)! I hope you don't get disappointed by the difficulties, but I assure you that we are willing to make this extra effort if you're willing too. Regards, José Fonseca On 2002.04.22 17:48 Peter Andersson wrote: > After missing it several times on your home page i finally saw that > development for Ati Mach64 is underway. So i just thought i would > announce my interest in the project. I don´t know anything about writing > code but if you need some "test pilots" please let me know. I am > currently using an Ibook with suse linux 7.1 for ppc and a "Ati Rage 3D > L Mobility" (mach64 as i have learned) and any version of XF86/kernel > you want me to. If there is anything else i can do please let me know. > > Regards > > Peter > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
