On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:35:19PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: >David Dawes wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: >> >> >>>I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting >>>problems trying to use their latest code. >>> >>> >I sent the previous message to fast and did not reply to you question >correctly. >The problem in the current CVS unichrome driver is a Opss when the via_drv.o >deallocates a piece of DRM memory twice. Elsewhere in the Xserver DRM >context >1 is removed. (This occurs when the Xserver resets its self when the lat >client >disconnects and the a new client connects and uses XVIDEO). It would >appear that >the via_drv.o code needs to be called back to tell it to shutdown. Is >there such a >call back to a driver? If so the via_drv.o code needs to arrnage for it >to be called >and clean up.
The via driver (X server) is supposed to take care of closing down and cleaning up everything it has used when its CloseScreen function is called. I don't know if you're seeing a bug in the X driver or the kernel driver. Server reset is often a poorly tested case, but it is usually straightforward to fix the problems that arise there. >I'm about to ship a product with a work around to the bug in the >Unichrome drivers. >I'm not going to be able to doing any testing until a few weeks time. > >What I really need to know is do you have people that are supporting >UNichrome for >XFree86. I can work with them on getting the bugs fixed. However if >unichrome >does not have support then I going to be forced to Xorg that does have >support, and >I'm not happy with the stability of Xorg. I'm not aware of anyone specifically working on the via driver for XFree86. Why not take it on yourself? David _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel