Re: [PATCH] Call xf86CrtcConfigInit() from within VIAPreInit()

2008-12-30 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, frankdelange wrote:

> From: Frank de Lange 
>
> I don't have a VIA-equipped machine so I can not test this patch but given 
> that
> VIA and Savage are 'quite similar' this should work to fix the segfault on
> start caused by use of an unallocated xf86CrtcConfig as well...
>
> If someone with access to a VIA-equipped machine can test this... it might 
> make some VIA users happy...
>
> PS for me the current VIA driver does not even compile - unrelated to this 
> patch - so even if I had a machine I'd have been unable to test...

The VIA driver is pretty much deprecated, use openchrome instead.


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Re: [PATCH] Call xf86CrtcConfigInit() from within VIAPreInit()

2008-12-30 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, frankdelange
 wrote:
> From: Frank de Lange 
>
> I don't have a VIA-equipped machine so I can not test this patch but given 
> that
> VIA and Savage are 'quite similar' this should work to fix the segfault on
> start caused by use of an unallocated xf86CrtcConfig as well...

It looks to me like all non-randr 1.2 capable drivers need this "fix."
 I think the proper fix is to find out what changed in the xserver
that makes this change necessary and fix that.

Alex
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