Re: where is xfree?
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:04AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Is the `SEGV on incorrect depth' problem fixed? I have no problems at all with
> `Depth' having to be 15 or 24 (which is more correct), but I'd like to see a
> decent error message instead of a SEGV when people try depth 16 or 32.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Geert
Nope it isn't fixed yet :( i'll take a look at it once i have some free
time (around next week) unless someone beats me to it.
BTW is there any way to get the fb_info struct from userland ? I would like
to add DPMS support in X server
Kostas Gewrgiou
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