Re: WD90C24 Port

Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Chris Schumann wrote:

> I've got an old laptop with a WD90C24 video chip. By default, X comes up in 
> 320x200x1, which is not too useful. While I am a competent programmer, I have 
> not done device drivers for Linux.

> How much effort would it take to port (part of) the svga driver to the latest 
> XFree86 project?

Your first order of business would be to read the source's 
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/DESIGN.

Marc.

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