Re: where is xfree?

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:04AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:37:10PM +0200, Stefan Berndtsson wrote:
> > > Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> > >
> > > > Are you saying that the previous 3.3.3.1-10 worked better for you than the
> > > > recent 3.3.5-1.1 package i compiled yesterday ?
> > > 
> > > No, I'm saying the 3.3.5-1.1 works better than 3.3.3.1-10, however neither work
> > > as well as the 3.3.5 from Tom Rini (just stole the binary from his .rpm).
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok, that means Tom Rini has some patch we are not aware of, or that some 
> > of the  mach64 stuff in the debian patches messed things up for you.
> 
> Right now, I build X w/ the following patches (For FBDev):
> XFree86-3.3.3.1-fbdev_dc.patch (DC hack to fbdev/fbdev.c, colormap fix)
> XFree86-3.3.3.1-fbdev_dga.patch (Enable some DGA extentions, xawtv works)
> XFree86-3.3.5-fbdev_15.patch: This does a few things good and bad.  The
> depth line in XF86Config should now be the values of red, green and blue
> that the fb uses.  ie "Depth 16" is now 16 or 15, depending on what the
> values add up to, and "Depth 32" should always be 24  (8+8+8).  Kevin
> Hendricks is responsible for this one and can explain better.
> XFree86-3.3.5-fbdev_machutil.patch: I posted this one a while back, this
> adds in LinkSourceFile(mach64util.h...) to the mach64 dir, and #ifndef
> powerpc's regw/etc in mach64util.h

Do you want them integrated in a future version of upstream X ? i am X team
member, and can do it. Will have to do a bit of testing and building myself
before that though.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER