From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Allegro: Apology and clarification on a series of idiotic posts
Date:	Sat, 09 Nov 1996 13:52:46 -0500
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after a series of idiotic posts on my behalf, i feel sort of compelled
to post this apology and clarification. although i do not expect many
other people to do the same mistakes that i did by not looking at the
sources before posting, it might still be useful.

as has been posted many times, to _build_ liballeg without problems you
need to change the following two lines in bank.S:

line 227 : incl %ah  ---> incb %ah
line 244 : incl %ah  ---> incb %ah

which are in the MACH64 bank switching portionof the code. however, do
not necessarily expect selecting the mach64 driver to work. as shawn
points out in several places, the mach64 code is not finished. this is
what i did not realize and therefore i sort of lashed out at eli and
another person. i was totally focused on these two lines and somehow
ignored what shawn had pointed out, i am sorry about that.

i later on made a claim that autodetecting the mach64 card works.
however, if i had cared to look at graphics.c, i would have realized
that autodetection of mach64 is disabled. so, even though autodetect
reports the name and parameters of the card correctly, it does _not_ use
the mach64 driver. instead, it is probably using the vesa 1.2 bios
installed on the mach64.

so, i apologize to anyone whom i may have misled. if anyone out there is
willing to work on the driver, i'll be happy to help in testing. i tried
to see if i could fix a couple of things to make it work but my
ignorance outweighed my enthusiasm. i just lack the technical knowledge
to see exactly what is missing.

sinan.
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