Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 09:34:17 +0200
From: hwposer AT rkw-risc DOT cs DOT up DOT ac DOT za (Rolf H W Poser)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Help ! Trident 8800CS graphics.
Cc: botha AT ford DOT ee DOT up DOT ac DOT za, msnell AT rkw-risc DOT cs DOT up DOT ac DOT za


Hi there folks !

Before I go out and try for hours to write my own driver for the 8800CS,
I would like to know whether someone has any info on it.

I've ftp'd the whole djgpp directory of our South African mirror site 
(ftp.sun.ac.za : /pub/msdos/djgpp) and I've also tried comp.sources.wanted .

The specific application that we're trying to get going is XAppeal, a network
X interface from dos (very much the same idea as XVision). The demo version
of it costs nothing and does not do the whole works, but it does support
4 xterms. The demo runs only in 640*480*256 mode. The card seems to have enough
memory (8*128k chips) so that should not be a problem. I've tried all the
cbg drivers and the drivers that came with XAppeal. Interesting to ne that
Xappeal was written with the aid of Gnu C, and is commercial (!). 

To get to my questions :

1. Will the 8800CS work whatsoever ?
2. Will it perhaps work in a different mode (ie. do we have to buy XAppeal) ?
3. Does anyone know of a driver available somewhere ?
4. Can anyone point me to people that are experienced with writing drivers ?
5. Or perhaps : Can anyone point me to a doc that will help me write my own.
  (ie. a document that will make it easy to understand for a CboffNOT) ?

I thank you for your patience and hope that my message has brought with it
some form of info for someone or that I will actually get a response....

Regards,
Rolf HW Poser (on behalf of Computer Support for Engineering,
University of Pretoria [help AT ee DOT up DOT ac DOT za])