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To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:50:39 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Cool,

Sorry I don't have the sources for CTPPRO nor for  FastVid.

I don't think that we need a device driver for fastvid . We can
do it in userland 8)

All you  should need to gain access to priviliged instructions is:

if (open("/dev/io", O_RDONLY) < 0) {
	printf("failed to open /dev/io \"); /* or something to that effect */

}

There are plenty of German hackers on the list . We just need one
of them to step in to translate fastvid...

	Enjoy,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Mark Mayo :
> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone managed to port CTPPRO  to FreeBSD?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.. Do you have source for it?? I jst download a copy
> from Toms's Hardware Guide, and there was no source :-(  I wouldn't mind
> trying to write a deice driver as a little "my first device driver"
> project. I have some Pascal source for "FASTVID", which as far as I know
> does the same thing as CTPPRO... it's in German, but I can get a friend to
> translate the comments so I know whhat it's doing.
> 
> > 
> > Using CTPPRO, I managed to boost the thruput on my Matrox Mystique from
> > 20MB/s to 85MB/s.
> > 
> 
> Boosts my Matrox Millenium from 24MB/s to 96MB/s...
> 
> > 	Tnks,
> > 	Amancio
> > 
> > 
> -Mark
> 
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