Re: Patched XOrg to get r128 working?

[aggaz <aggaz@paranoici.org>]

Wow, I did not expect that.

I can understand the need to clean up things, but at the same time it is 
sad to see how support is gradually lost for old machines.

I am sincerely grateful for the work people is doing to bring support 
back to those old beautiful machines.

Thank you
Regards
A.



Il 20/04/20 22:36, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
> On 4/20/20 10:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 4/20/20 10:10 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:
> > > Tried everything to get X working (needed working for LXDE), including a new
> > > xorg.conf with modelines. NO SUCCESS AT ALL.
> > >
> > > Another developer (who works on VoidPPC) said r128 needs patched to even work….
> > > I don’t even know what he did to get it working over there.
> >
> > I suggest asking him what he did and then - if it's a patch that's necessary -
> > we can include it in the xorg package for the r128 driver.
>
> The r128 driver package was removed from Debian unstable [1, 2]. I can try to
> build one tomorrow - if it actually still builds - and provide it to you.
>
> Not sure whether the driver is still maintained upstream.
>
> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-r128.html
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955603