[Dri-devel] V3 Compliation Error

2001-09-18 Thread Nick Hudson
Greetings, I was compiling the tdfx.o module and I get these errors when I do a make -f Makefile.linux in the xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel directory. make -f Makefile.linux === KERNEL HEADERS IN /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/build/include === SMP=1 MODULES

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Frank Earl
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 19:05, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Very much agreed. This is moreso even for standard XFree86 > driver development (2D et al.), and porting old 3.3.6 driver to > 4.x. Yes, I would love to see the CyberBlade on my laptop at least do 2D right (Working correctly only in 1

Re: [Dri-devel] What source for Rage Pro?

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:29:03PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:41, Andreas Kloeckner wrote: > > > > > I have the Rage Pro docs from ATI, I would now like to know *how* I can > > > get the source of the driver that people are working on currently for > this >

Re: [Dri-devel] What source for Rage Pro?

2001-09-18 Thread Felipe Contreras
> On Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:41, Andreas Kloeckner wrote: > > > I have the Rage Pro docs from ATI, I would now like to know *how* I can > > get the source of the driver that people are working on currently for this > > chip. Also I would like some information on what part of the driver I > >

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 7:10 pm, you wrote: > Although security through obscurity is not a good solution, it is > effective to a certain degree. To my knowledge, no security holes have > been found in the NVIDIA drivers. They need to be found to be exploited, > and finding them is more difficult w

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:05:59PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Daryll, are there dri project private lists I presume that could > be extended to new developers similar to XFree86's developmental > list? There aren't really any at this point. We discussed most things in public, and sometimes

[Dri-devel] Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ian D Romanick wrote: >Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36:13 -0700 (PDT) >From: Ian D Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: >Subject: Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project. > >> IMHO the whole idea of bein

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI, MGA, kernel 2.4.9 + devfs

2001-09-18 Thread Alan Hourihane
Check the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file again. It looks like your loading older modules from XFree86 4.0.x rather than the 4.1.0 ones. Alan. On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:27:05AM -0500, Mark Bainter wrote: > > Note: I posted this on the dri-users list about a week or so ago > and no-one there

Re: [Dri-devel] What source for Rage Pro?

2001-09-18 Thread Frank Earl
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:41, Andreas Kloeckner wrote: > I have the Rage Pro docs from ATI, I would now like to know *how* I can > get the source of the driver that people are working on currently for this > chip. Also I would like some information on what part of the driver I > need to loo

[Dri-devel] What source for Rage Pro?

2001-09-18 Thread Andreas Kloeckner
Hey everyone, I have the Rage Pro docs from ATI, I would now like to know *how* I can get the source of the driver that people are working on currently for this chip. Also I would like some information on what part of the driver I need to look at. Thanks-a-million :) Andreas ___

Re: [Dri-devel] Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Gareth Hughes
Mike A. Harris wrote: > > After reading some people's postings on donating X amount of > money for feature Y, and the like, I thought about it and come to > the conclusion that donation driven DRI project even partially is > quite unrealistic. I'd like to discuss why I think that is so. Mik

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Allan
Will Newton wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 4:36 pm, you wrote: > > > > Look at it this way: a couple of security holes have been found in the > > > DRI drivers, and fixed. What's in the nVidia drivers? > > > > What's in any binary application or driver you install? > > I don't know. Er, that

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:35:33PM -0700, Frank Worsley wrote: > 1. Who is going to take on the leadership position for the project? Although > this is a community project we do need somebody in charge to act as a sort > of "project lead" and contact person for people outside of the project. > Cur

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:12:34PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbrella? AFAIK the > only reason that DRI was outside of XFRee86 was because it began at PI, and > then when it moved to VA Linux they hosted it on Sourceforge (?). > > XFree

Re: [Dri-devel] Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Ian D Romanick
> IMHO the whole idea of being donation-driven, is for the monetary > donations to be a motivator. The one place where donations would help is in getting hardware for spare-timers. Over the past two years I can't even begin to count the number of times that I've heard "I can't work on that part

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Will Newton wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 4:36 pm, you wrote: > > > > Look at it this way: a couple of security holes have been found in the > > > DRI drivers, and fixed. What's in the nVidia drivers? > > > > What's in any binary application or driver you install? > > I

[Dri-devel] Future plans

2001-09-18 Thread David Johnson
I think Frank's outline of future plans is a good start but let me toss in my 2 cents. Overall, I would like to see some focus shift from just developing drivers to ensuring the infrastructure remains solid and up to date. We can beg hardware manufacturers all we want to release specs but som

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 4:36 pm, you wrote: > > Look at it this way: a couple of security holes have been found in the > > DRI drivers, and fixed. What's in the nVidia drivers? > > What's in any binary application or driver you install? I don't know. Er, that's my point... > > People are willing

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Will Newton wrote: > On Monday 17 Sep 2001 9:16 pm, you wrote: > > > There's no good reason why you couldn't put an NVIDIA card in a sever > > and use the open source 2D driver. You wouldn't want to enable DRI on > > you server, either, because of lockup issues. > > Look

[Dri-devel] DRI, MGA, kernel 2.4.9 + devfs

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Bainter
Note: I posted this on the dri-users list about a week or so ago and no-one there was able to help me. I'm still not convinced it's a bug, but I can't figure it out either. Advice would be appreciated. Also, everything (DRI, the mga driver, etc) is built into my kernel. Ok, I think

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Keith Whitwell
Will Newton wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 7:35 am, you wrote: > > > I think it is too early to put a donation page up on the website. Before we > > can do anything like that a few important details have to be sorted out ... > > What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbre

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 7:35 am, you wrote: > I think it is too early to put a donation page up on the website. Before we > can do anything like that a few important details have to be sorted out ... What are the odds of the project coming under the XFree86 umbrella? AFAIK the only reason that D

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 17 Sep 2001 9:16 pm, you wrote: > There's no good reason why you couldn't put an NVIDIA card in a sever > and use the open source 2D driver. You wouldn't want to enable DRI on > you server, either, because of lockup issues. Look at it this way: a couple of security holes have been fou

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Ben OShea
* Frank Worsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > 4. I think we have to also start a more coordinated effort to get specs from > the hardware developers. This weekend I will sit down and try to come up > with a nice document/letter/webpage aimed at management and titled something > like "Why op

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-18 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:16:49PM -0700, Mark Allan wrote: [..snip..] > The important thing is to have drivers available from a source you have > some confidence in. If Linus wrote a binary-only kernel module that > provided some functionality you require, would you have faith in it? > Binary o

[Dri-devel] Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-18 Thread Mike A. Harris
Several have suggested that some sort of donation driven effort be made with which to sustain DRI development. Personally, I hope the DRI project continues on to be a successful project, and any efforts by anyone to see it does, hopefully turn out beneficial. After reading some people's posti

Re: [Dri-devel] Future plans for project (was: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Frank Worsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I get it written up I will post it to the list so everybody can > review it. Once we have made something nice I will either email it > or mail it to the different companies. Hopefully we can archieve > something doing that ... what do you a