Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
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 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
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. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
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. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
Marc Aurele La France wrote: Looking at the diffs of the xfree86 via driver between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 I seem to see that all that changed, apart from new features, is loader stuff: -LoaderRefSymLists(vgaHWSymbols, +LoaderModRefSymLists(module, + vgaHWSymbols, Do I need to make these loader changes to get correct operation or does your fallback code work correctly in all cases? Can I ignore this code change, I assume I can given that the driver works without changes. Where should I look to debug why XVIDEO is not showing up under 4.6.0? This would be answered by your subsequent query about the XvExtension symbol's disappearance. Indeed. Barry ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Barry Scott wrote: Marc Aurele La France wrote: Looking at the diffs of the xfree86 via driver between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 I seem to see that all that changed, apart from new features, is loader stuff: -LoaderRefSymLists(vgaHWSymbols, +LoaderModRefSymLists(module, + vgaHWSymbols, Do I need to make these loader changes to get correct operation or does your fallback code work correctly in all cases? Can I ignore this code change, I assume I can given that the driver works without changes. 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. Marc. +--+---+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and| fax:1-780-492-1729 | |Communications Technologies | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 352 General Services Building +---+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply| | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +--+---+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Barry Scott wrote: I have a via driver (Unichrome from last November plus patches) that works very well on 4.5.0. It supports XVIDEO that the standard XFree86 driver does not support. I can build and use this same driver code is a trivia patch under 4.6.0 but xvinfo reports that there is an XVIDEO adapters. Looking at the diffs of the xfree86 via driver between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 I seem to see that all that changed, apart from new features, is loader stuff: -LoaderRefSymLists(vgaHWSymbols, +LoaderModRefSymLists(module, + vgaHWSymbols, Do I need to make these loader changes to get correct operation or does your fallback code work correctly in all cases? Where should I look to debug why XVIDEO is not showing up under 4.6.0? This would be answered by your subsequent query about the XvExtension symbol's disappearance. Marc. +--+---+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and| fax:1-780-492-1729 | |Communications Technologies | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 352 General Services Building +---+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply| | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +--+---+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
