any chances to incorporate savage driver from S3

[Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>]

Hello,

Since Tim Roberts stopped work on his savage driver (see below), is
there any chances that S3 driver will be incorporated into XFree86? 
(either Debian or upstream ;-)  It supports DRI (-ac kernels has it),
but is for 4.2.0 only (ie. some work would be needed to use it on 4.3.x.

((((It would be great to have DRI on my laptop, so I could play
Neverwinter Nights ;-)))))

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           From: 
Tim Roberts
<timr@probo.com>
       Reply-To: 
Tim Roberts
<timr@probo.com>
             To: 
savage40
<savage40@probo.probo.com>
        Subject: 
[Savage40] Better
Driver Out There
           Date: 
Wed, 09 Jul 2003
11:32:34 -0700

Well, folks, it appears that my Savage driver is now a LONG ways from
the state 
of the art.  I am no longer "da man".

Unbeknownst to me, VIA/S3 have been quietly bulking up their snapshot of
the 
Savage driver.  Recently, they were persuaded to release their driver to
the 
world in source form:

  http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip

I have not tried to compile this yet, but based on a quick perusal of
the 
source code, it looks like it:

 * Supports all of the Savage chips
 * Supports video4linux for videoport/zoomvideo
 * Supports the Chrontel TV part on ProSavageDDR motherboards
 * Supports MPEG motion compensation acceleration (XvMC)
and (drum roll, please):
 * Supports DRI and OpenGL

They have made so many changes that it is almost impossible for me to
determine 
whether all of my recent fixes are in their code, but given the
thoroughness I 
see in other places, I suspect that they are.

So, if you have the inclination and ability to build from source, it
would be 
well worth your trouble to give this a try.  If you do build binaries
for 
either 4.2.0 or 4.3.0, let me know and I will announce it to this list.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>