On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 13:35 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: > You might have noticed that xorg-x11 has entered its next release cycle, > leading up to -6.9. Currently, it is package-masked and has no sparc > keyword. In the next day or so --- certainly by the end of this week > --- I am going to build it and start testing. If it works, I'll give it > a ~sparc keyword. If you want to play with it, you'll have to unmask it > yourself in /etc/portage. > This has happened. On my two test cases, (U2-SMP + ffb2+, U60-SMP + afb, both kernel 2.4.xx systems) it built, installed, and is running with no local modifications. If you want to play with it, note: 1. You'll need to add x11-base/xorg-x11 to your /etc/portage/package.unmask file (or however you unmask packages); 2. xaa acceleration + font rendering improvements are now standard in the Creator (sunffb) driver. With this, the ffb DRI facility is hard-disabled and so no longer an option. 3. sunleo fixes seem to be incorporated, but I cannot verify directly. 4. On my systems, some openGL (Mesa) programs exhibit unusual behavior. E.g.,glxgears reports reasonable performance, but there is a lot of slippage. (On the screen, gears are very slow.) This might or might not be attributable to an update to Mesa (to 6.2.1)
If you choose to try this out on sparc, please record your experiences here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89801 Email back to me directly might work, too, but I get a lot of it and sometimes discard it before reading. I always read changes to bugs I am tracking, however. (Just a little advice to those who want their experiences taken into account.) > Documentation at freedesktop > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/#head-7f9963a87b2eb461fc821f70af0cecbb33788ba8 > indicates that the sunffb -xaa- patch is now included with the standard > distribution, and comments at > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259 > suggest that the sunleo fix is included, too (although summary comments > do not so indicate). If these are the case, I'll start cleaning up > various associated Gentoo bugs. Please review that site, and note the "Changes since..." link. Sunleo changes seem to be included. Feedback to bug 89801, please. I have closed the ffb_dri bug as "Can't fix" because it can't be fixed; I am keeping the 6.8.2-r1 tracker at Bug 79467 open for now, but I would request that anyone experiencing difficulties with 6.8.2, or anyone installing X for the first time please give 6.8.99 a try. (I'm echoing Donnie's request here. If it looks like plagiarism, that's because it is.) > > NOTE: For those of you who have been living under rocks, the xaa/render > improvements for sunffb are incompatible with DRI, and Creator/DRI is > therefore disabled in the xorg-x11 sunffb driver. With this, all > pretense of Creator+DRI+xorg-x11 is gone. (The Mesa/openGL libraries > are still present and usable, of course.) Comments, test results, feedback welcome. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)
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