On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:35:01 +0100, Felix Khling wrote: > >as mentioned earlier on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm working on the savage S3 >code drop, specifically on the 3D driver. A few days ago I managed to >get a working 3D driver ported to Mesa 4. It is now in DRI CVS on the >savage-2-0-0-branch. However, many users (including myself) are >experiencing more or less serious problems with the 2D driver from the >code drop. We have to use it for now as it is the only driver we have >that is DRI aware. It also has some nice features that would be worth >integrating into a reliable 2D driver, like interpolated scaling of >video overlays or hardware motion compensation. > >I have no experience with XFree86 2D drivers and not much useful >documentation of the Savage hardware. I was hoping that we could join >forces towards a Savage 2D and 3D driver combination for future XFree86 >releases. Therefore I'm writing to you as the maintainer of the Savage >2D driver now.
Please allow me to emit a heavy sigh. <sigh depth="heavy"/> I want to help. I do. I feel a serious sense of ownership about the XFree86 Savage driver; it has brought me as close to "fame" as I am likely to experience in my lifetime. However, it is unlikely that I will be able to spend more than a few hours on it for the next few months. The 2D driver VIA submitted was forked from my code about 2 1/2 years ago, when they terminated my contract. I know it does not include some of the fixes I have made since then, but someone who is competent with a 3-way diff tool should be able to merge those in. Can you enumerate the problems people are seeing? If the problems are familiar to me, perhaps I can offer valuable assistance without a huge time commitment. I _do_ want to see this driver succeed. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
