Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-23 Thread Barry Scott

Marc Aurele La France wrote:
You should be able to.  But, in my opinion, it would be better to 
determine why the 4.5 driver works better for you than the 4.6 one, 
aside from the Xv thing. 
The via driver code that XFree86 ships in 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 does not work 
for XVIDEO
on the CLE266 chip. The Xserver uses 100% CPU time and you have to 
reboot to get

your machine back after Xine starts to play a movie.

The via code from the Unichrome sourceforge project is very stable. I'm 
porting the

unichrome driver to 4.6.0. This code is usually used with Xorg.

You might want to approach the Unichrome author, Luc Verhaegen, for 
permission

to use his code in Xfree86.

There is a another version of the via code called the OpenChrome 
project. But

their code is unstable (and the default in Xorg...).

Oh and the code from via themselves is next to useless and very poorly 
written.


Barry

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Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-23 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:06:27PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
 
 You might want to approach the Unichrome author, Luc Verhaegen, for 
 permission to use his code in Xfree86.

Why would i need to give permission, or from a license point of 
view; how could i withhold permission? I'm not VIA, i don't drop 
copyrights unwarrantedly or insert bogus licenses surreptitiously; it's 
all nicely MITed, with proper disclaimers (with VIA permission) too.

Luc Verhaegen.
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Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-23 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:06:27PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
 The via driver code that XFree86 ships in 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 does not work 
 for XVIDEO
 on the CLE266 chip. The Xserver uses 100% CPU time and you have to 
 reboot to get
 your machine back after Xine starts to play a movie.
 
 The via code from the Unichrome sourceforge project is very stable. I'm 
 porting the
 unichrome driver to 4.6.0. This code is usually used with Xorg.
 
 You might want to approach the Unichrome author, Luc Verhaegen, for 
 permission
 to use his code in Xfree86.
 
 There is a another version of the via code called the OpenChrome 
 project. But
 their code is unstable (and the default in Xorg...).
 
 Oh and the code from via themselves is next to useless and very poorly 
 written.
 
 Barry
 
Barry,

How much time have you already spent trying to get my code to build and 
run against xfree86 4.6.0?

How much would it have cost you if you allowed me to bill you for the 
time i'd be spending on it?

And when would you have had a working X and driver?

Luc Verhaegen.
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