Re: Bug#167234: Problems XFree86 + NvidiaGeforce 2 MX400 twinwiev + Apple Studio Display 15'
El sáb, 02-11-2002 a las 20:35, Branden Robinson escribió:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:31:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 17:10, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > The nv driver has only been fixed for PPC after 4.2.0, i.e. you'd need
> > > > current CVS.
> > >
> > > I didn't know it was broken.
> > >
> > > Should I shut the driver back off (i.e., don't build, don't ship) for
> > > PowerPC in my current 4.2.1 packages?
> >
> > I don't know what the exact status of the driver is in 4.2.1; it may
> > work on some chips or with some features disabled.
>
> Er, well, that's not really relevant, as I had forgotten that I did the
> following:
>
> xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v2) unstable; urgency=low
> [...]
> * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD_nv_driver:
> - updates to nv driver from XFree86 CVS courtesy of James Hirschorn
> -- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:07:45 -0500
>
> > Ani Joshi or the Yellow Dog folks might have patches.
>
> I'd like someone with an NVidia-based PowerMac to be my liaison in this
> matter. I can't test such patches personally, as none of the PowerMacs
> I own use NVidia video hardware.
>
> Just think, dear to-be-named volunteer, it's you chance to join the
> glorious X Strike Force and be feared across the land.
I would like to help testing patches, just give me them and the source
of Xfree86 which compiles and works on my machine (or instructions to
compile properly the source, I know C and I'm learning C++ this year).
I have a macintosh and I would like to help the linux comunity.
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