On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:20:05PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> 3) let it all rot until xserver-xorg-video-geode re-integrates support
>> for older Geode hardware, later this autumn, at which point the
>> transitional packages for the N
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:20:05PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 3) let it all rot until xserver-xorg-video-geode re-integrates support
> for older Geode hardware, later this autumn, at which point the
> transitional packages for the NSC and Cyrix drivers that will be
> included in GEODE will
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Just because the driver claims crap doesn't mean we cannot fix it, so
> stop being arrogant that we cannot do anything about it to restore
> usability at the distro level.
>
Yes, we can workaround the problem by using your patch or whatever. In
fact, if you had start
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> We have a way to be that precise, by statically defining what it
>> actually supports, rather than grepping the driver for every ID that
>> we find and hope that ALL resulting vendor+device combin
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> We have a way to be that precise, by statically defining what it
> actually supports, rather than grepping the driver for every ID that
> we find and hope that ALL resulting vendor+device combinations we
> produce are actually supported.
Please stop being so arrogant an
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> The patch generates a very rough list that makes it look like every
>> vendor supports every device. It completely disregards conditional
>> checks that the driver itself does.
>
> A quick grep sh
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Anyhow, the real issue is that generating random lists of "supported"
>> hardware, by matching every manufacturer and device ID found in the
>> source code, produces false positives, which is not
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> The patch generates a very rough list that makes it look like every
> vendor supports every device. It completely disregards conditional
> checks that the driver itself does.
>
Could you be more precise?
A quick grep shows:
numUsed = xf86MatchPciInstances(NSC_
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Anyhow, the real issue is that generating random lists of "supported"
> hardware, by matching every manufacturer and device ID found in the
> source code, produces false positives, which is not desirable.
Which "random" lists We extract the list of hardware that th
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 14:54:52 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
>> This PCI ID conflict mainly shows when launching X without any
>> xorg.conf and in LTSP, where it prevents X from making a choice about
>> which driver
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 18:20:05 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
>> Because the upstream maintainers for the NSC drivers backported early
>> GX2 support from the old OLPC driver, there is a PCI ID conflict with
>> xserve
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 14:54:52 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> This PCI ID conflict mainly shows when launching X without any
> xorg.conf and in LTSP, where it prevents X from making a choice about
> which driver to use, which makes X completely fail to launch.
>
It shouldn't prevent X from
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 18:20:05 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Because the upstream maintainers for the NSC drivers backported early
> GX2 support from the old OLPC driver, there is a PCI ID conflict with
> xserver-xorg-video-geode, which prevent Xorg -configure from operating
> as expected,
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nsc
Version: 1:2.8.3-2
Severity: important
Because the upstream maintainers for the NSC drivers backported early
GX2 support from the old OLPC driver, there is a PCI ID conflict with
xserver-xorg-video-geode, which prevent Xorg -configure from operating
as expected, mak
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