| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 15 Apr 00 at 06:40:16 |
| Subject: | Re: Survey on OS for M@tabox Boards |
"Marion E. Wyatt" wrote:
>
> > Well ok. This then sound like the new amiga we all have been waiting
> > for, as soon as the main processor can be changed to G3 or G4. And the
> > price with your hardwarespecs seems ok for me now, too.
> > But they should provide some drivers for common (cheap?) PCI-
> > graphicscards. (perhaps like on PC standard VGA-drivers).
>
> I dunno, but it would be a good idea. Maybe somthing Holger Kruse does with
> MNI drivers for ethernet cards would be a good idea. As long as card uses
> the same chipset the driver shouldn't have to be that different for
> different cards.
> I don't know how drivers work, but they shouldn't that hard should they? I
> think one of the hardest drivers for the BoXeR will be the USB ports.
As far as video drivers go, the CGX driver for the CV3D
would work with a Virge PCI card with very minor changes,
and the CVPPC driver would work with Permedia 2 PCI cards
with very minor changes.