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Offline matthey

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Re: NetSurf-m68k
« on: July 18, 2014, 07:02:54 PM »
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Artur told me the aminet version has problems with Voodoo graphic cards. The latest version he sent me is said to work fine with a Voodoo3.
I hope it also works with my Voodoo4.
I also discovered new drivers for the Mediator and Voodoo4/5 - perhaps that can also help...


Ah, someone else who uses a Voodoo 4 in their Mediator. The new voodoo.card and pci.library updates from Elbox don't work for me:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=74331

It's too bad as one of the improvements would allow to get rid of the BYTEREV/Swizzle in the Warp3D Voodoo/Avenger drivers speeding them up and shrinking the driver. Elbox has never fixed the big endian color problems for the Voodoo4+/Napalm so I'm not expecting much from them.
 

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Re: NetSurf-m68k
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 09:31:31 PM »
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Matt. Have you contacted elbox about it. From my experience one can talk to them. Maybe i could mediate being polish after all:-). But its you who would have to explain the problem. Do you have a solution in mind?
Because i suspect there is too few v4 users for them to care. Or they want to sell out own v3 stock.

Elbox's voodoo.card P96 driver should work for both the Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 4-5. The Voodoo 4-5 VSA-100/Napalm chipset is mostly backward compatible with the Voodoo 3 Avenger chipset but the initialization and setup is different. I believe Elbox only sells Radeon gfx cards. There is little reason for them to sabotage the Voodoo 4-5 compatibility. I believe I did report the distorted color problem a long time ago and never received a reply. They did respond to a problem I had with a dead on arrival ethernet card from them and they removed the charge from my bill. I have had mixed results dealing with them. They do seem to be bad at losing e-mails, maybe sometimes to their aggressive spam filter. I have not reported the most recent problems with their voodoo.card or pci.library but they may know about it. I think Cosmos has been communicating with them. He may be the one who asked for the change in the initialization setup so that the thousands of BYTEREV/Swizzle inlines are unnecessary in the W3D Avenger drivers. I let Cosmos know about the Voodoo 4 problems as well as posting about the problems on different Amiga forums. I get the impression that Elbox wants to provide the minimum of support and maximize their profits. I don't like their proprietary/closed software and standards attitude either. I think they would sell more products if they supported OpenPCI, AROS, generic USB cards (instead of charging for a generic USB card with a modified ROM), etc. and had a good reputation in the Amiga community that users wanted to support. I know you would like to see some of the same. Their hardware products are good. Good luck changing their attitude though, even if you are also Polish.
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