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Bug#362501: marked as done (xserver-xorg-video-nv should include the EXA patch)

Your message dated Tue, 08 May 2007 00:47:32 +0200
with message-id <463FAC84.6050902@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#362501: xserver-xorg-video-nv should include the EXA patch
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Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv
Version: 1:1.0.1.5-2
Severity: wishlist


xserver-xorg-video-nv should include the EXA patch from:

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ExaStatus

Since XAA is used by default, there would be no user visible change. It would however allow
people to test the EXA implementation for NVidia cards.

I was able to rebuild the nv driver after patching the sources and fixing src/Makefile.am
manually (the patch is for the monolitic source tree, but applies cleanly if you ignore the
Imakefile part). The fixup for src/Makefile.am is trivial: just add the new source files
nv_exa.c nv_dma.c, then rebuild the Makefiles with automake.

The EXA enabled driver allows me to use the composite extension with KDE on a 1100 MHz Duron
and a GeForce2 MX 100 with acceptable performance and stability. Using the proprietary Nvidia
driver will give you higher performance but is unstable with the composite extension and
render acceleration. Not to mention that you will run into problems building this driver if
your kernel is too new.

So all in all Debian would benefit by using this patch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1-mm1
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nv depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  xserver-xorg-core             1:1.0.2-3  X.Org X server -- core server

xserver-xorg-video-nv recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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According to upstream, this EXA patch does not really matter nowadays
and won't ever be applied upstream. We are not going to include it then.
Closing.

Brice

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