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Subject:    [haiku] Res: Re: Firefox 3+ for Haiku
From:       Michael Oliveira <michaelvoliveira () yahoo ! com ! br>
Date:       2010-01-25 1:37:33
Message-ID: 977151.99235.qm () web33607 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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Going VERY VERY off topic still...

Is possible create a ati readeon hd driver

based upon radeonhd from X driver?

 Atenciosamente,


Michael Vinícius de Oliveira



----- Mensagem original ----
De: Gerald Zajac <zajacg@sbcglobal.net>
Para: haiku@freelists.org
Enviadas: Domingo, 24 de Janeiro de 2010 21:17:23
Assunto: [haiku] Re: Firefox 3+ for Haiku

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010/1/24 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>:
> > > Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Right now apps is a very low priority for me though as I
> > > > can't run Haiku at a decent resolution.
> > > You're then probably the best one to fix that particular
> > > problem :-)
> > Which makes everything else a low priority :)
> > But writing a graphics driver from scratch is not that easy
> > when you never done it.
> 
> Isn't there an X driver you can start with? Since you don't have to care about \
> acceleration yet (we don't even use any, currently, anyway), all you would have to \
> do would be memory management, and mode switching. For the former, the existing \
> driver code could help a lot, and for the latter, at least an X driver should exist \
> that already does the job. 
The X drivers are a good place to start.  Both the S3 and ATI video drivers that I \
have done, were based upon code in the X drivers.  Before I did those drivers, I had \
no experience writing a video driver.

BTW, what is the video chip that you need a driver for?

-- Gerald


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