From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 21:03:10 -0600

Re: MediaGX driver and GGI demos.

Emmanuel Marty wrote:

> nop1@cornell.edu wrote:
>
> > Ok, I cleaned up my Linux system a bit and was able to recompile kgicon.o
> > and libraries. I finally successfully switched console to 1024x768x8bpp
> > mode on my MediaGX machine: it's beautiful and I'm staying with it. The
> > refresh rate is neat, no flicker that I notice in Win95 in this mode. Good
> > job, guys.
>
> Thanks (and mine to Sengan, for porting to fbcon successfully). I am
> forwarding your remark to Philip Sydor, an european manager at Cyrix / NSC
> very interested in the Linux driver development and how it compares to
> Windows. An happy customer for you, Phil :-)

*blush* Thanks. Nice to have a happy camper.

> Sengan: the -5 instead of -1 in the horizontal/vertical computation was
> here to cope with a deficiency of KGI clock calculation (ie. this adjusted
> the values to make them correct by the Cyrix specs). Apparently, fbcon/kgicon
> computation is right, or got fixed at some point in time - not sure, but
> seems to work fine now. Sorry for not mentioning that.

Ah. Which resolution in particular?

> What is your exact system configuration? I'm trying to keep track of
> the systems it is known to run on.

The kgi version was known to run on a 133Mhz GX/5510 board, but with
somesynchronisation difficulties. I think I now know why, but I have no board to
test
it with. Perhaps later once the 5530 port is done.

Right now it is know to work on a 200 Mhz GXi/5510 board except resolution
800x600x8.

It is known not to run on a 233 Mhz GXm/5520 board. I'll deal with that once
I've fixed 800x600.

It is known not to run on a 233Mhz GXm/5530 board. I'll deal with that once I've
gotten 5520 back working.

Sengan