Just installed it on my old 486 machine (in less than 20 minutes:) and it
appears
to work fine except for my graphics card (an old SPEA V7 Mirage) based on
a S3 801/805 chipset. This #%§ card has no VESA Bios so I only get 640x480
standard VGA which is too small for everything.
This chipset was apparently supported with QNX4, but is not in the RTP
compat list.
Is there any chance to get it running with older drivers or will older
graphics chipsets
be supported one day?
Alex
Alexander Endlich <Alexander.Endlich@veritas.com> wrote:
Is there any chance to get it running with older drivers or will older
graphics chipsets be supported one day?
We are concentrating our efforts on chipsets that can support the new
features we’ve added to Photon 2.xx.
We will be releasing a graphics driver development kit in the coming weeks
so that interested parties can write drivers for chipsets that we don’t
have the manpower to support here.
Sounds very good. However, I think that nobody is going to develop
a driver for a 7 years old graphics card. I would give it a try, but I’m not
very experienced writing drivers…
I would even buy a new graphics card for that old thing (just to prove that
QNX RTP runs perfectly on an old 486). It’s a Vesa Local bus machine 
Any spontaneous ideas about an ISA graphics card which is supported?
Alex
pete@qnx.com schrieb in Nachricht <8sf24p$5m5$2@nntp.qnx.com>…
Alexander Endlich <> Alexander.Endlich@veritas.com> > wrote:
Is there any chance to get it running with older drivers or will older
graphics chipsets be supported one day?We are concentrating our efforts on chipsets that can support the new
features we’ve added to Photon 2.xx.We will be releasing a graphics driver development kit in the coming weeks
so that interested parties can write drivers for chipsets that we don’t
have the manpower to support here.
Tiger <ae007@nospam.munich.netsurf.de> wrote:
Sounds very good. However, I think that nobody is going to develop
a driver for a 7 years old graphics card. I would give it a try, but I’m not
very experienced writing drivers…>
I would even buy a new graphics card for that old thing (just to prove that
QNX RTP runs perfectly on an old 486). It’s a Vesa Local bus machine >
Any spontaneous ideas about an ISA graphics card which is supported?
Hang tight until the next patch. There will be a driver that supports
bank switched cards using the video BIOS. If that doesn’t work, then
you can think about switching to a different card.
I’m sure it’s worth waiting. Hey, and I’m clapping hands with Gregg. Thanks,
Pete.
Alex
<pete@qnx.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:8sicqc$5gp$1@nntp.qnx.com…
Tiger <> ae007@nospam.munich.netsurf.de> > wrote:
Sounds very good. However, I think that nobody is going to develop
a driver for a 7 years old graphics card. I would give it a try, but I’m
not
very experienced writing drivers…>
I would even buy a new graphics card for that old thing (just to prove
that
QNX RTP runs perfectly on an old 486). It’s a Vesa Local bus machine >
Any spontaneous ideas about an ISA graphics card which is supported?Hang tight until the next patch. There will be a driver that supports
bank switched cards using the video BIOS. If that doesn’t work, then
you can think about switching to a different card.