Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Yann Dirson]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Do you still intend to package gatos-drm-source for Debian? 

Yes.

> If so, please
> remember to keep the bugtracking system informed of progress and delays.

The main current problem is that currently, DRI freezes my machine on
resolution changes (bug known since ages, as it appears, probably linked to
VIA chipset).

OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
tedious task.

Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
package for it ?  Currently, I build one manually, which diverts X-provided
files before unpacking.  Maybe the same approach could be taken there ?

Debian-X people, what do you think of this ?
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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > If so, please
> > remember to keep the bugtracking system informed of progress and delays.
> 
> The main current problem is that currently, DRI freezes my machine on
> resolution changes (bug known since ages, as it appears, probably linked to
> VIA chipset).

Which chipset? I have a KT400 which works just fine.

> OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
> for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
> date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
> tedious task.

It could be better, it could be worse. I think Branden has merged Sven
Luther's DDK patches, no?

> Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> package for it ?  Currently, I build one manually, which diverts X-provided
> files before unpacking.  Maybe the same approach could be taken there ?

No.

> Debian-X people, what do you think of this ?

Package it using the DDK.

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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Yann Dirson]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:40:43PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > If so, please
> > > remember to keep the bugtracking system informed of progress and delays.
> > 
> > The main current problem is that currently, DRI freezes my machine on
> > resolution changes (bug known since ages, as it appears, probably linked to
> > VIA chipset).
> 
> Which chipset? I have a KT400 which works just fine.

lspci says:

:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo 
MVP3/Pro133x AGP]


> > OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
> > for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
> > date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
> > tedious task.
> 
> It could be better, it could be worse. I think Branden has merged Sven
> Luther's DDK patches, no?

Ah, I don't know anything about this DDK - the mere idea that something
exists is quite refreshing indeed ;)


> > Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> > package for it ?  Currently, I build one manually, which diverts X-provided
> > files before unpacking.  Maybe the same approach could be taken there ?
> 
> No.

:)

> > Debian-X people, what do you think of this ?
> 
> Package it using the DDK.

OK, will look for docs.  Matt, what's your status wrt ATI.2 ?

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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:11, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Do you still intend to package gatos-drm-source for Debian? 
> 
> Yes.

Why? :) There's no longer anything that prevents GATOS from working with
the current DRM from DRI CVS, for which I provide drm-trunk-module-src.

Also, are you aware of the bugs being filed about the non-free microcode
in the DRM?


> OTOH, this version of the DRM is tightly coupled with the ATI.2 DRI driver
> for the X server, and this one was worked on by Matt Zimmermann at some
> date.  And everyone knows that building an X driver is currently quite a
> tedious task.
> 
> Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> package for it ?

IMHO the GATOS folks should really try to get their code merged... in
the meantime, the DDK is probably the best solution.


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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Yann Dirson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:34:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:11, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > Do you still intend to package gatos-drm-source for Debian? 
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Why? :) There's no longer anything that prevents GATOS from working with
> the current DRM from DRI CVS, for which I provide drm-trunk-module-src.

Ah, that's good news.  Last time I tried, the GATOS DRI required a version
of DRM older than those shipped by the kernel and X, so that their version
was indeed required.

I'll check that and surely close the ITP then :)

> Also, are you aware of the bugs being filed about the non-free microcode
> in the DRM?

No, I'll look at that.  You mean DRM from DRI or from GATOS ?

> > Maybe the X source package could integrate the ATI.2 sources, and build a
> > package for it ?
> 
> IMHO the GATOS folks should really try to get their code merged...

Sure that would be easier for everyone.  But there's more than just DRI in
their tree, and last time I checked, it looked like they had 2 branches: one
with tv-in working, and one with tv-out working...

> in the meantime, the DDK is probably the best solution.

Unfortunately "apt-cache search ddk" and other guesses do not help me much.
In which package will I find it ?

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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:34:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:

> IMHO the GATOS folks should really try to get their code merged... in
> the meantime, the DDK is probably the best solution.

The card fried, so I'm not planning to do any work on it.  I closed the ITP,
but feel free to munge it if one of you does intend to package it.

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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Branden Robinson]

[Ugh, this CC is huge -- someone plese trim it.]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:44:46AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > in the meantime, the DDK is probably the best solution.
> 
> Unfortunately "apt-cache search ddk" and other guesses do not help me much.
> In which package will I find it ?

I haven't merged the patch yet, but it's on the TODO list[1].

[1] svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk/debian/TODO

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Bug#157729: Outstanding ITP - gatos-drm-source

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 10:44, Yann Dirson wrote: 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:34:37AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:11, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:37:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > > Do you still intend to package gatos-drm-source for Debian? 
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > Why? :) There's no longer anything that prevents GATOS from working with
> > the current DRM from DRI CVS, for which I provide drm-trunk-module-src.
> 
> Ah, that's good news.  Last time I tried, the GATOS DRI required a version
> of DRM older than those shipped by the kernel and X, so that their version
> was indeed required.

I assume you mean the infamous, incorrect 1.100.0 version hack. I have
removed the underlying incompatibility in the current DRM, but I don't
know if GATOS has adapted their X driver yet.


> > Also, are you aware of the bugs being filed about the non-free microcode
> > in the DRM?
> 
> No, I'll look at that.  You mean DRM from DRI or from GATOS ?

Any flavour, the microcode is the same everywhere.


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