On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:30:47 -0800 Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For those of you who experience the weird refresh rate settings using > the 1.1.27t driver on your ProSavage-DDR, there now seem to be TWO > workarounds. The first, which I have been recommending, is to disable > the use of the BIOS using Option "UseBIOS" "no". However, list member > Christian Herzog tried an experiment in which he fetched the Savage > driver source code from the XFree86 4.4.0 beta 2 code tree. After a bit > of tweaking, he managed to get it to build with the rest of the 4.3.0 > source, and he says the problem is now solved. Cool. I always had that problem with recent savage drivers. Disabling UseBios was ok as long as I didn't activate the TV-out with s3switch. > > If you are interested in trying Christian's driver, I have plopped the > binary on my web site, http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html. > > As a side note, the VIA-submitted driver source will NOT make it into > XFree86 4.4.0 -- it will still be my code. The DRI code needs too much > integration. The porting work is actively going on, however, so a > solution is in sight. Right. Alex Deucher is working on the 2D driver. Personally I have doubts that the VIA code will ever make it into XFree86 in more or less its current form. It's based on a very old version of your driver, so it probably lacks lots of bug fixes in your newer drivers. IMHO using it as a base for a new XFree86 driver bears a big risk of reintroducing many old bugs. Instead I'd prefer to integrate new features from the VIA driver (DRI awareness, XvMC, interpolating Xv, ...) into the current driver in XFree86. I know it would be a lot of work (either way) so I'm in no position to make a decision. Alex, what's your opinion on this subject? Regards, Felix > > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Savage40 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.probo.com/mailman/listinfo/savage40 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
