Bug#257062: Need any help testing? I have an i8xx in my workstation.

[Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fjortis.info>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:53:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> Can you have a look at the X Strike Force HACKING document, particularly
> the part of it that talks about building the package from source, and let
> us know if you think you can undertake this task?
> 
> http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/HACKING.txt
> 

Hi!

Thanks for your mail. I've read the hacking-document and built the xfree86
packages from source. On the other hand I have no clue how to add the
new driver. I'm not familiar with the build-system at all and generally
know very little about XFree86. ;(
I have looked at both the freedesktop.org i915 driver which was mentioned
earlier in this bugreport and the xfree86.org driver in cvs that's
supposed to support i9xx. Are they the same? Doesn't look like that
judging from the different files in each directory. 

http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/drivers/dri/
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/

I was hoping to get some help from the xfree86.org side on the build
system but now I don't know if I can use anything from xfree86.org....

If anyone could help me out on how to add the driver that would be
great. I'll investigate further later on but don't really know
if I'll manage this task on my own...


Regards,
Andreas Henriksson