I happened to be be looking for information about this a few days ago and could recover the address from my history:
http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml It contains very detailed information about latest driver development. Sorry, 2D only. On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:26:59 +0100 José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas, > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:57:52PM +0200, Andreas Allacher wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Will you add (or will there be in future) also DRI-support for the > >graphic device SIS630. If yes do you know a not exactly date? > > I'm not 100% sure of the current state of the SIS chips DRI drivers so > I'm CC'ing my answer to the dri-devel mailing list so that others can > corroborate. > > AFAIK, there is (or was) support for the SIS 3xx drivers in the initial XFree 4.0.x >releases (may even 4.1.x), but the driver never got ported to the new Mesa 4.x driver >architecture due to lack of people interested. I recall a newbie ofered him self to >try even without the specs, but I don't know if anything ever got made at all. > > So in summary, if you want DRI you have to stick with older XFree86 > versions, unless someone steps into porting the deprecated DRI driver. > > Personally I do not have time to do it myself as I already have my hands > full with other things, but I wouldn't mind helping by guiding all the > way if somebody was willing to code it. > > Jose Fonseca > > PS: In case you don't know it, Thomas Winischhofer has lot of info > regarding the FB and XFree86 SIS drivers at > http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml and > http://www.winischhofer.net/sisdri.shtml > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! > Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server > today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > __\|/__ ___ ___ ___ __Tschüß_______\_6 6_/___/__ \___/__ \___/___\___You can do anything,___ _____Felix_______\Ä/\ \_____\ \_____\ \______U___just not everything____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >o<__/ \___/ \___/ at the same time! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
