Advogato blog for davem

14 Jun 2001 - June 14, 2001

The Broadcom Tigon3 boards arrived, but looking at their driver made me want to scratch my eyeballs out. I think I'll write the 2.4.x driver from scratch, thank you. At least, I can print out their driver and use that when we run out of toilet paper here at the apartment. Jeff Garzik will help me on this thing and I let him loose on the vger cvs tree today. Someone told my wife about the multi-head experiment I had planned for her. Get back in the dog-house dude! I think I crashed the...
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12 Jun 2001 - June 12, 2001

Winter is long gone, this snowboard powder bum is depressed. I just int10 booted the x86 bios on a r128 PCI graphics card on my Sparc SunBlade-100. Life is... ummm... good Will be cleaning up these xf86-4.1.x mods and trying out tdfx and other cards tomorrow. Maybe I'll even get r128 DRI working on this box, which would be nice. Gareth Hughes promised he would help. What does this mean Well basically I can now multi-head Creator3DElite3D UPA boards, mach64 ATI cards with Sun firmware,..
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