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.

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

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

Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-22 Thread Barry Scott
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

Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-22 Thread Marc Aurele La France
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, +

How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-19 Thread Barry Scott
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.

Re: How do I convert 4.5.0 driver to 4.6.0?

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Aurele La France
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