Re: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:40:43PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.
lspci says:
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
> > 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?
Ah, I don't know anything about this DDK - the mere idea that something
exists is quite refreshing indeed ;)
> > 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.
OK, will look for docs. Matt, what's your status wrt ATI.2 ?
Regards,
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