It appears that people keep discussing the ATI VGA WONDER card as a
potential target for x386/Linux.  However, unless I missed some messages
while I was on vacation last week, it also appears that no one has started
working on this.

Therefore, unless someone lets me know they are working on this driver, I
will start work on 1 August 1992.  I will have a beta available asap after
that.  My initial plan is to port the X11R4 x386 1.1b ATI VGA WONDER driver
that was supplied by Doug Evans (dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca).

I will need beta testers, and to help avoid confusion I am supplying a list
of boards which will likely be supported and a list of those which will
*not* be supported.  The BIOS version should be visible at boot time.  The
dot clock and chip version numbers are usually printed on the chips on the
circuit board.  If you have a board that is on the *UN*supported list, please
do not send me mail about it.  I don't know anything about these boards and
won't be able to help you with them at all.



SUPPORTED BOARDS (Send mail if you want to be a beta tester):

Adapter Version       Dot Clock        Chip Version      BIOS
VGA WONDER (1 MB)     ATI 18810        ATI 28800-4       112xx109xx
VGA WONDER XL         ATI 18810        ATI 28800-5       112xx122xx

NOTE: YOU *MUST* HAVE 1 MB OF RAM ON THE CARD!

      Some VGA WONDER (1 MB) cards were sent with VGA WONDER+ manuals and
      and addendum sheet: PLEASE USE THE BIOS VERSION to be sure that your
      card will work with this driver.




UNSUPPORTED BOARDS (Please do *NOT* send me mail about these):

Adapter Version       Dot Clock        Chip Version      BIOS
VGA INTEGRA           ?                ?                 ?
VGA WONDER V3         Oscillator       ATI 18800         V3-1.xx
VGA WONDER V4         Oscillator       ATI 18800-1       V4-1.xx
VGA WONDER V5         ATI 18810        ATI 18800-1       V5-1.xx
VGA WONDER+ (V6)      ATI 18810        ATI 28800-2       112xx095xx
GRAPHICS ULTRA        ?                ?                 ?
8514/ULTRA            ?                ?                 ?
VANTAGE               ?                ?                 ?


-- 
Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu