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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source



On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > If so, please
> > remember to keep the bugtracking system informed of progress and delays.
> 
> The main current problem is that currently, DRI freezes my machine on
> resolution changes (bug known since ages, as it appears, probably linked to
> VIA chipset).

Which chipset? I have a KT400 which works just fine.

> OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
> for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
> date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
> tedious task.

It could be better, it could be worse. I think Branden has merged Sven
Luther's DDK patches, no?

> Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> package for it ?  Currently, I build one manually, which diverts X-provided
> files before unpacking.  Maybe the same approach could be taken there ?

No.

> Debian-X people, what do you think of this ?

Package it using the DDK.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                                <daniels@debian.org>
Debian: the universal operating system                     http://www.debian.org

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