I forgot to mention to take a peek into the list archives for more information about the Savage driver state:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-devel&w=2&r=1&s=savage&q=b On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:12:08AM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:10:10AM -0300, Maximo wrote: > > I'm new here and i don't know much about developing drivers but i > > really would like to learn, and i'm sorry for the silly questions that i > > may ask. > > > > The first question is about building the binaries after getting > > the source from CVS, it's only "make World" and "make install", how do > > "make" knows witch card do i have or it just build everything and copy them > > to the right place? > > It builds almost everything. > > > My concern here is if "make install" may "destroy" my > > Xfree installation, I would prefer putting the binaries by hand, so that i > > could undo if something went wrong. > > > In these cases you install in a seperate directory. See > http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_HOWTO.html - it's for Mach64 but it > applies to Savage if you replace mach64-0-0-x-branch by > savage-0-0-1-branch. > > > > > > The second one is if there is anyone working on savage4 drivers, > > The Savage driver was started by me but I've haven't worked on it for a > long time. Andreas Karrenbauer has step in and made alot of work on the > DDX and bootstraped the DRM but there hasn't been any changes lately. > Many other people showed interested. > > > and where can i found some material about developing drivers? > > Read the DRI Devel FAQ: http://dri.sf.net/doc/faq and other documents at > http://dri.sf.net/doc > > > At first I > > will try to test it and then try to help who is writing this driver. > > I'd say that the main requisite to write a driver is determination. It's > a very difficult and long task, and the early state of the Savage DRI > driver create a thick wall to break in. > > In any case I'm available to provide any guidance necessary - but I > don't have the time to code on the driver myself. > > José Fonseca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
