Hi, I'm a newbie who offered to continue development of the SIS630 DRI drivers. (The non DRI sis X drivers are being maintained by Thomas Winischhofer and he's doing a good job)
My first task it to find out why DRI crashes my computer after a few seconds when any game (I'm using Foobillard) moves an object partially off the screen. I edited sis_render.c source code to disable triangle hardware rendering and that stops the crashes but lowers frame rate from an excellent performance (for a cheap notebook) to a couple of frames per second. Not all computers crash but many do. After I fix the crashes I'll do the conversion to Mesa 4.x driver architecture. I asked SIS for datasheets but I'm still waiting. I fear they're ignoring me. On their web pages they say they have sent datasheets to Xfree86.org. What is the way to gain access to them? Joaquim Carvalho > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:26:59 +0100 > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andreas Allacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Dri-devel] Re: SIS630 - Support? > > 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:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
