Re: xserver-xorg-video-glide

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 20:14:37 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> On Guillem's request, I've prepared a packaging of the xf86-video-glide
> driver. This driver is for Voodoo 1 and 2 boards. From what I
> understand, it does not manage any PCI device (so there's no
> /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/glide.ids). And you'll get better perf if
> you load the 3dfx kernel driver (so it recommends device3dfx-source).
> Please somebody review the attached patch.

You actually need the module for libglide2 (but you got that right in
the package description). I released a new upstream version of it this
morning as well, so that it builds with latest kernels with
CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY disabled, and few other fixes.

> Guillem or anybody having such a graphic board, you can try the driver
> for i386 at:
>     http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/glide/

Thanks for this! I'll be testing in the coming next days.

regards,
guillem