From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 20:29:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502C616A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E16243F75 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:29:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h8I3PkpM024670 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:25:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F6924DA.1050007@ec.rr.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:22:02 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030713 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: device drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 03:29:34 -0000 I hope this is the right list, I have a nforce 2 board and have drivers that aren't working. I read the nforce was based ond the amd chipset so I tried to use /sys/pci/agp_amd.c as a blueprint and modified it according to the data in /src/pci/agp_nvidia.c. I am maybe half done and learned enough to know not to expect this thing to work. I would like some more documentation and help if aviliable. I read the developers and architecure handbooka and a few examples on the web. I know enough to be dangerous, I have been told. I would like to write a driver that comforms to all the new standards like newbus(does this apply for agp?), avoiding GAINT(I need more info on this),smp(since nvidia likes a universal driver architecure this would be helpfull for the nforce 3 and opteron), etc... I have been getting some tech support from Mathew Dodd on the questions lets where I was just tring to get 3d working with a non-nvidia card. It seems I am the only one with a nf2 mobo and and ati video card who wants to do some gaming and can't. He added agp_nvidia.c to freebsd and I think ether he gave up on me, or the driver does not work and he gave up on it. So I am back to tring to write a driver myself. I emailed nvidia a couple of times for documentation and the only response I ever got was an automated conformation. Big help they were, but if any else here has their ear maybe they could inquire? Thanks, Jason