what information will i need to code my video drivers?

[linuxraver]

i want to attempt to code my own drivers for my oxygen vx1 card from 3dlabs.

i need to know what information about the card i will need to have before i can begin.
thanx in advance http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Shad]

IANACBAIL (I am not a coder but an informed layman http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif )

Memory address space, IRQ's, and whther it is VGA compliant. If it has Video Ram, how to address would be nice. I would write to the company to ask for whatever specs they would be willing to provide. It will probably take both phone and email to get through to the right people. (Some companies will provide that info and some will not.) If you have access to Card that has open source drivers, it will probably help you alot.

I wish you good luck, it was people like you that got us to this point with GNU/Linux.

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Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life

[stiles]

check out this (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive/) book. That might be a place to start

[lazy_cod3R]

wow an oxygen card !!!
thats like the best graphics card u can get right now isnt it ?

[linuxraver]

it depends on what u do as i model in max and maya the oxygen is great
256mb of texture memory 32mb video memory http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
glint r3 chip set

[Glaurung]

Do a forum search, there were a few people in the past who also wanted to code a video driver....