Re: Rainbow Runner Studio + Mystique + Linux

Hej ! 

Sorry, no clue; I think that was the main reason why driver dev stopped 
- Matrox was never supportive of OpenSource drivers. 

Here are the last traces that I found online (check Oct 16):
http://web.archive.org/web/20021212071821/http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~eddie/mga4linux/changelog.html

> Thanks, do you know if there is datasheets available for the coprocessor chip
> on the Rainbow Runner Studio, no the zoran chip, as I have the datasheet for
> the mga1064SG and zoran chips, the mga1064sg datasheet just leaves open the
> ability for any co-processor hence unsure of its hardware registers to have a
> stab myself at a driver, and I am unsure of tracing mmio calls to registers
> etc in windows (esp. 95) not to mention wary of the legalities of tracing
> device drivers and the fact you do not get register names that way hence
> driver code is unreadable.
> 
> the unfinished driver do you know were it may be found?
> 
> thanks
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Gernot Ziegler" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 5:10 PM
> To: "Graeme Brett Houston BSc" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "The Marvel/Linux list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Rainbow Runner Studio + Mystique + Linux
> 
> > Hej,
> >
> > as far as I know it was never finished ... sorry.
> >
> >
> > > Hi looking for device driver for Matrox Rainbow Runner Studio not
> > > G-series, i belive there used to be a driver for linux, but i cannot find
> > > it
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks Graeme
> >
> > Servus,
> >  Gernot
> >
> > GPU. 3D Vision. Europe. Future. Now.
> > Drop by: www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~gziegler - www.geofront.eu
> > 
> 
> 

Servus,
  Gernot

GPU. 3D Vision. Europe. Future. Now.
Drop by: www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~gziegler - www.geofront.eu


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