Re: accelerated fbdev X server ...
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:25:54AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:32:16AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 03:57:48PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > i did put the XF68_FBDev executable for the X server with geert's fbdev accel
> > > > > > patches at :
> > > > >
> > > > > This uses the xc-19981210 diff, or is there something newer then that now?
> > > >
> > > > No it still is the same patch, ...
> > > >
> > > > i don't think there will be a newer one, since Geert is pretty busy right now,
> > > > and anyway, 3.9 will obsolete this stuff soonly, ...
> > >
> > > And a few other problems.
> > >
> > > > I have submitted this patch to Xfree to be included in their enext 3.3 release,
> > > > and will send the same patch to the X team ...
> > >
> > > Er. I think part of the reason it wasn't submitted by geert (was it?) was
> > > it doesn't work on all machines, and of course needs a bit of work.
> >
> > Are you aware of any problem with it ? Could you please tell me, or what people
> > experienced said problems ?
>
> It doesn't work at all on the ATI cards on some of the Power Computing
> machines. There's also some problem w/ the ims accel which I just got a
> patch for (I'll send that to you privatly when I get home).
does it work with the noaccel flag in xf86config ? or is it no more used, i
heard Geert speak about it some (long) time back.
For patches we have to hurry, may 31 is absolute last submit time.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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