Hi Guys, I have managed to accelerate an Elite3D card on a Blade 1000. It requires a binary blob in order to work, the utility to do so is called afbinit and the port can be found here:
http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/files/afbinit.tgz It works well once you get the firware on the card. Mplayer performance and window drawing is greatly improved, but theres an issue. The firmware only seems to load when X11 has already been started once without the firmware. If you attempt to load the firmware before, the afbinit fails to mmap(). Needless to say, this makes putting afbinit in rc.local awkward. So I was hoping someone with some X11 hacking experience might be able to lend a hand. I am guessing the card needs to be "initialised" in some way prior to the firmware coming in. I wonder if ttyCX is the right device node in the first place. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
