Re: Future of Unichrome (CLE266, CN400 etc) unichrome drivers
David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:35:19PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting problems trying to use their latest code. I sent the previous message to fast and did not reply to you question correctly. The problem in the current CVS unichrome driver is a Opss when the via_drv.o deallocates a piece of DRM memory twice. Elsewhere in the Xserver DRM context 1 is removed. (This occurs when the Xserver resets its self when the lat client disconnects and the a new client connects and uses XVIDEO). It would appear that the via_drv.o code needs to be called back to tell it to shutdown. Is there such a call back to a driver? If so the via_drv.o code needs to arrnage for it to be called and clean up. The via driver (X server) is supposed to take care of closing down and cleaning up everything it has used when its CloseScreen function is called. I don't know if you're seeing a bug in the X driver or the kernel driver. Server reset is often a poorly tested case, but it is usually straightforward to fix the problems that arise there. O.k. I hunt for the CloseScreen function. I'm about to ship a product with a work around to the bug in the Unichrome drivers. I'm not going to be able to doing any testing until a few weeks time. What I really need to know is do you have people that are supporting UNichrome for XFree86. I can work with them on getting the bugs fixed. However if unichrome does not have support then I going to be forced to Xorg that does have support, and I'm not happy with the stability of Xorg. I'm not aware of anyone specifically working on the via driver for XFree86. Why not take it on yourself? I'm contributing patches to the Unichrome project. If you integrate their code into XFree86 periodically then you will be in better shape then what shipped in 4.5.0. I get to spend time on these drivers only when they break, its part of my day job. I cannot commit time in an ongoing basis. I suggest you contact Luc Verhaegen of the Unichrome project for on going support. Barry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Future of Unichrome (CLE266, CN400 etc) unichrome drivers
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:35:19PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting problems trying to use their latest code. I sent the previous message to fast and did not reply to you question correctly. The problem in the current CVS unichrome driver is a Opss when the via_drv.o deallocates a piece of DRM memory twice. Elsewhere in the Xserver DRM context 1 is removed. (This occurs when the Xserver resets its self when the lat client disconnects and the a new client connects and uses XVIDEO). It would appear that the via_drv.o code needs to be called back to tell it to shutdown. Is there such a call back to a driver? If so the via_drv.o code needs to arrnage for it to be called and clean up. The via driver (X server) is supposed to take care of closing down and cleaning up everything it has used when its CloseScreen function is called. I don't know if you're seeing a bug in the X driver or the kernel driver. Server reset is often a poorly tested case, but it is usually straightforward to fix the problems that arise there. I'm about to ship a product with a work around to the bug in the Unichrome drivers. I'm not going to be able to doing any testing until a few weeks time. What I really need to know is do you have people that are supporting UNichrome for XFree86. I can work with them on getting the bugs fixed. However if unichrome does not have support then I going to be forced to Xorg that does have support, and I'm not happy with the stability of Xorg. I'm not aware of anyone specifically working on the via driver for XFree86. Why not take it on yourself? David ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Future of Unichrome (CLE266, CN400 etc) unichrome drivers
David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting problems trying to use their latest code. What problems are you hitting? XVDEO crashes - as I said in my orginal messages. BTW the same is true of i810 driver use XVIDEO and lose the XServer. Barry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Future of Unichrome (CLE266, CN400 etc) unichrome drivers
I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting problems trying to use their latest code. BTW the code the ships in 4.5.0 is badly broken, crashes with XVIDEO is used which is why I'm using the newer Unichrome code. The Unichrome folks are only focusing on Xorg support and tell me I'm on my own with XFree86. Does the XFree86 team have a developer that is working on VIA Unichrome drivers? If not I fear that I'm going to have to move to Xorg, that I do not wish to do, to get hardware support. Barry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Future of Unichrome (CLE266, CN400 etc) unichrome drivers
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:56:16AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: I'm using the Unichrome driver with XFree86 4.5.0 and I'm hitting problems trying to use their latest code. What problems are you hitting? David ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
