Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on Today, 17:00

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by kjliew

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PCI does not require ESCD to be functional, it is just nice-to-have to speed up next boot. CMOS with dead battery should not affect PCI functionality, you will have power anyway, the battery is only used to sustain the date and clock when the power is out. The on-board video, the Cirrus Logics …

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Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:36

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by kjliew

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I've been thinking about this. But is the integration really such a big improvement of the 430FX. Why do you call it 2-chip? Technically 430FX is a 4-chip solution as you need 2437FX System Controller (TSC)􏰂, two 82438FX Data Paths (TDP)􏰂 and the 82371FB PCI ISA/IDE Xcelerator (PIIX)􏰃 . It took …

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Re: G550 info

Posted on Yesterday, 09:13

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G550 was an interim product until they could get Parhelia out the door, similar to G100 also an interim product until they could get G200 out the door. G100 added the much desired bilinear filtering for Direct3D games. Unfortunately, the propriety MSI 3D API was canned, otherwise it could be the …

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Re: G550 info

Posted on Yesterday, 09:01

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Matrox basically gave up after the commercial failure of the G400(MAX) with the revisions... I don't think G400 was a commercial failure. Both G200 and G400 could be considered quite successful, the commercial failure was Parhelia. Matrox has always been the company with a niche focus. Consumer 3D …

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Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on Yesterday, 02:04

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by kjliew

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But is has nothing to do with the uptake of PCI for the simple reason that every single chipset vendor for Pentium CPUs had already switched to PCI buses for both Pentium and 486 motherboards a full year before the release of the i430FX. Some vendors tried to combine VLB and PCI, mainly for 486 but …

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Re: VIA Apollo Pro 133A/133T poor DOS SVGA performance

Posted on 2020-04-06, 21:15

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by kjliew

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Were you running the BX at 133MHz which also overclocked the AGP bus? Looking at Quake2 benchmark archive , it could be what VIA could do best. Intel chipsets has traditionally beaten VIA hard on concurrent bandwidth and latency. VIA made good improvements to catch up on latency with the VIA Apollo …

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Re: Matrox MGA-IMP+/A

Posted on 2020-04-06, 20:47

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Matrox Impression Plus, ISA version http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item … impression-plus

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Re: VIA Apollo Pro 133A/133T poor DOS SVGA performance

Posted on 2020-04-06, 20:43

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100FPS vs 64FPS, the difference is too drastic for even a mis-tuned BIOS settings. How was the memory setup, number of DIMM sticks and DS/SS? I would suggest that you may have a mis-configured MTRRs even after running MTRRLFBE/FastVid. The only way to tell is to get a tool to dump out all the MTRRs …

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Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 01:36

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It wasn't i430FX (or indeed the rather lackluster i430NX that So5 launched with that pressed the market to PCI. The traditional chipset vendors had already made that move by 1994. You mention SiS as offering a 'legacy approach', but they had full feature parity with Intel by 1994 and the …

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Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on 2020-04-05, 02:09

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Intel wasn't a chipsets provider back then when they launched the 1st generation Pentium, the 60MHz and 66MHz versions. The chipsets market for PC back then was dominated by VLSI, OPTi, SiS and ALi. They were traditional chipsets suppliers for 386/486. I don't remember if VIA was there. As the PC …

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Re: Glide 2.1.1 games and Voodoo 2

Posted on 2020-04-05, 01:29

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Scorched Planet crashes on launch with the following error: I tried the 3Dfx demo from Diamond Monster3D CD. It did not crash, but I found that this is another game that does not use LFBWRITEMODE_565, but LFBWRITEMODE_1555. This is worse than Mechwarrior 2. It works with dgVoodoo2 through QEMU …

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Re: QEMU 3Dfx Glide Pass-Through (WHPX/KVM works!!!)

Posted on 2020-04-04, 22:32

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That is normal when the audio backend failed to get an audio input source. "mc" is mic, and "pi" is pcm-in. SDL audio backend does not support any audio input sources regardless if one is actually available. If you get this with dsound audio backend, then it really means there is no audio input …

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Re: Glide 2.1.1 games and Voodoo 2

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:55

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Mechwarrior 2 starts and works fine, even in 800x600, but framerate is in the single digits. It's not playable. Yeah, I think Pentium II 266MHz may not have the pixel pushing power for the additional LFB format conversion. I remembered when I first did it back in 2002 with a Voodoo2 I was barely …

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Re: (Un)lucky Athlon XP-M

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:15

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by kjliew

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It's very risky for any CPU without IHS, including Pentium 3 Coppermine. Not for Intel CPUs though. As I just said, Intel had been investing heavily in their engineering research to prevent the CPUs from thermal damage. I had a PIII Coppermine 1GHz in 2002, but I used to wrong heatsink and the …

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Re: (Un)lucky Athlon XP-M

Posted on 2020-04-04, 00:25

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by kjliew

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Haven't you watched the Intel Pentium4 promo video by Intel at the time where they were hit hard by Athlon? The moment the fan were abruptly stopped, the Athlon just turned into fire. This really gave AMD a hard time and all motherboard vendors started implementing CPU fan monitoring and alerting …

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Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 08:27

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The Matrox Millenium II (MGA-2164W) also supports texture mapping and offers similar 3D features as the Mystique for Direct3D games. So the additional memory can be used as local texture memory. But its pricing did not target consumer 3D gaming market. The original Matrox Millenium (MGA-2064W) does …

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Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Posted on 2020-04-02, 22:07

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by kjliew

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Sorry for necromancing an old thread as I really hope to see the light of SGL wrappers one day, even the last binary alpha release is fine. They used to be available for download from Tuxality website before they were taken down abruptly. With QEMU MESA GL pass-through, it may be possible to run SGL …

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Re: QEMU MESA GL pass-through for OpenGL games

Posted on 2020-04-02, 04:05

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It's a dream come true :D ! With the Glide 2.1.1 wrapper, I have finally able to play Mechwarrior 2 31st 3Dfx on Linux laptop on QEMU KVM with Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper at 1280x960 using the wrapper high-res option to double the resolution. It plays smoothly hovering between 20-30fps, which is …

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Re: Glide 2.1.1 games and Voodoo 2

Posted on 2020-04-02, 01:02

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I remember you saying you'd leave this project for a rainy day... Congrats on making this work. :) Well, I am on a mission to enable my 3Dfx game collections on Linux through QEMU KVM. If OpenGlide had been any better in its implementation, then I wouldn't have done it again. Anyway, it's quite …

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Re: Glide 2.1.1 games and Voodoo 2

Posted on 2020-04-01, 20:59

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@vetz I updated the attachment to include an i586 version without CMOV instructions. Check it out if you will.

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