Re: What can the FSF do to help?

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick McFarland
over fixing bugs like this is, well, stupid, especially if I, and others like me in my position, cannot use them. -- Patrick McFarland || http://AdTerrasPerAspera.com Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching

Re: What can the FSF do to help?

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick McFarland
continued not to work. -- Patrick McFarland || http://AdTerrasPerAspera.com Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc

Re: What can the FSF do to help?

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 11 September 2006 18:52, Jerome Glisse wrote: On 9/12/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 18:06, Alex Deucher wrote: When was the last time you tried the driver? with xorg 7.1, mesa 6.5 and the latest radeon ddx updates, the driver is more

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Patrick McFarland
lib, and you use DRI as your HAL. If you don't like Mesa or DRI because it is buggy or slow or backwards, then either fix the so called bugs, or quit bitching. /rant -- Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd

Re: R3XX lockup possible solution

2006-06-24 Thread Patrick McFarland
is enabled)? -- Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 Using

Re: dri on r300 part 2

2006-02-23 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thursday 23 February 2006 03:52, Daniel Stone wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:23:33AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 23:36, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/22/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/22/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/ Two questions, 1) why doesn't dapper already have this? 2) why doesn't the dri build instructions on the site mention this... or better yet, xc or mesa already have them included and use

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Patrick McFarland wrote: glxcmds.c: In function ‘glXBindTexImageEXT’: glxcmds.c:2618: error: ‘X_GLXvop_BindTexImageEXT’ undeclared (first use in this function) Guess you haven't been reading the list lately. Update your glproto

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 04:31, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:19:09AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/ Two questions, 1) why doesn't dapper already have

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 04:53, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:50:22AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 04:31, Daniel Stone wrote: It's not a part of Mesa, and xc/ is dead. The reason why it's broken out as its own module, is because

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 05:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 03:01 -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 21:45 -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 04:30, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:25:31AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:29, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Patrick McFarland wrote: glxcmds.c: In function ‘glXBindTexImageEXT’: glxcmds.c:2618: error

dri on r300 part 2

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
Well, someone has updated the dri build instructions to reflect Xorg 7.0, whoever that was, thank you. So nuked all the cruft due to the installation of xc, and reinstalled X from dapper debs, and everything is back to normal. Also, Mesa seems to build now; after its done, I'll build the drm

Re: dri on r300 part 2

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 2/22/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, someone has updated the dri build instructions to reflect Xorg 7.0, whoever that was, thank you. So nuked all the cruft due to the installation of xc, and reinstalled X from dapper debs, and everything is back to normal. Also

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 15:19, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/18/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon 8500 to a Radeon 9600, however trying to use Xorg's DRI drivers with it causes X to completely lock up on startup. ATI's binary drivers work fine

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 17:09, Aapo Tahkola wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:45:54 -0500 Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon 8500 to a Radeon 9600, however trying to use Xorg's DRI drivers with it causes X to completely lock up on startup. ATI's

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 16:27, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 15:19, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/18/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon 8500 to a Radeon 9600, however

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 16:36, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 17:09, Aapo Tahkola wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:45:54 -0500 Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon 8500

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 16:39, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:27, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 15:19, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/18/06

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 18:00, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 17:10, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:52, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Feb

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 20:08, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:52, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:39, Alex Deucher wrote

Re: dri on r300

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Monday 20 February 2006 20:30, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 20:08, Alex Deucher wrote: On 2/20/06, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 16:52, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Feb

dri on r300

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick McFarland
Well, I finally upgraded my Radeon 8500 to a Radeon 9600, however trying to use Xorg's DRI drivers with it causes X to completely lock up on startup. ATI's binary drivers work fine, however. Also, starting Xorg without Load dri works fine Xorg's radeon driver. So, whats wrong? -- Patrick

Re: CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-06 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Friday 05 August 2005 04:19 pm, Jon Smirl wrote: I've included the scanout types for the R200, what other ones are supported by the various chips? For example I think the R300 can scanout in floating point. 4bpp Indexed 8bpp Indexed 16bpp aRGB 1555 16bpp RGB 565 24bpp RGB 888 32bpp

Re: why no open source driver for NVIDIA/ATI

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 03:18 pm, Roland Scheidegger wrote: Patrick McFarland wrote: Heh, the only thing I want is GL ARB fragment shaders accelerated as much as possible by R200 hardware. I don't see that happening with ATI's binary drivers, they only support the old ATI pre-ARB fragment

Re: why no open source driver for NVIDIA/ATI

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 04:54 pm, Ian Romanick wrote: Patrick McFarland wrote: Even if we violate precision/range stuff, being able to accelerate simplistic shaders would be quite useful. Its better than not having a software implementation of the shader pipeline. The problem

Re: why no open source driver for NVIDIA/ATI

2005-07-27 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 06:16 pm, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 18:05, Patrick McFarland wrote: So why can Doom 3 use R200 pixel shaders, and DRI can't? Doom3's r200 shader pipeline gives different (read: worse) output than their arb shader pipeline. They have the liberty

Re: GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar for r200

2005-07-22 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Friday 22 July 2005 08:20 am, Roland Scheidegger wrote: Roland Scheidegger wrote: but you can have 6 reads per stage (thanks to different alpha/rgb sources), e.g. the whole register set. Ah scratch that, wrote too fast. This if of course not an issue, since you can address the alpha and

Re: [Bug 3640] New: New Account

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick McFarland
*cough* On Monday 27 June 2005 02:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do not reply to this email: if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter yourcomments there. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3640 Summary: New Account

Slightly OT: We should move #dri and #dri-devel off of FreeNode

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick McFarland
Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away in a direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the FreeNode network. Tor ( http://tor.eff.org ) is an open source anonymous gateway system. Many users who are not in the position to be able to use IRC

Re: Slightly OT: We should move #dri and #dri-devel off of FreeNode

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 11:15 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Patrick McFarland wrote: Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away in a direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the FreeNode network. Tor ( http://tor.eff.org ) is an open

Re: Offtopic: Quake 3

2005-02-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:34 pm, Nguyen The Toan wrote: I hope this is not too off topic. I bought the retail version of Quake 3 few years ago. But now I want to try it on Linux. Does anybody know if I need to buy a new copy for linux or if I can modify the Q3 Linux Demo somehow ? Simply

Building page on wiki

2004-10-13 Thread Patrick McFarland
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building mentions a buildtools.patch, is this still required for xorg cvs? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms,

Re: Software emulation of shaders.. sw-shader

2004-10-02 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:58, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: When browsing the web I found this: http://sw-shader.sf.net. It's full software implementation of DX9 for windows.. using SIMD/SSE/MMX. That looks very cool. I hope someone copies the code into mesa. -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland ||

Re: exception testing in r200 driver

2004-09-24 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:50:26 +0100, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should do. There is a corner case of SMP with only one CPU having SSE but thats already broken in Mesa and many other packages. Not to sound ignorant, but isn't that a bug in the mobo/bios/chipset/processors? That shouldn't

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:12:08 -0400, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can test the r200_dri.so from the snapshot with the DRM from the kernel... And drum roll please... The dri cvs snapshot works fine on both it's own kernel module, and the one that comes with 2.6.8.1. So now what?

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:07:45 -0400, Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of badly formatted text. I do apologize for anyone who had to read that. -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all

[BUG] cvs snapshots dont compile on 2.6.8.1

2004-09-06 Thread Patrick McFarland
Both r200 and savage dri cvs snapshots for 20040905 fail to compile on virgin 2.6.8.1 dri.log says make DRM_MODULES=radeon.o modules make[1]: Entering directory `/home/diablo/code/dri/dripkg/drm' rm -f linux ln -s . linux make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/source SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd`

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-06 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:14:43 -0400, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to fix this is a pretty hot topic now. Yow, I didn't mean to cause such an upset. ;) Currently, the dri cvs snapshot for 20040905 doesn't compile with 2.6.8.1 for me (I've sent a bug report to the dri-devel mailing list

Re: New proposed DRM interface design

2004-09-06 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:15:07 +0100, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some cases yes. The DRM is happy with the idea of the kernel being a DRM client too. Thats actually a pretty cool idea. For us that need to use the vesa fbcon driver because there is no native driver, it would probably be

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:59:12 +0100 (IST), Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you insmod the radeon drm module with drm_opts=debug do the test and send on the trace, it may be getting wedged somewhere unexpected... Here you go, but it doesn't look like it has output anything interesting.

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:40:54 -0400, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 04:22 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:34:59 -0400, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where did you get r200_dri.so from? From the one that comes with the Deb X

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:25:00 -0400, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 16:18 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: That shouldn't matter, should it? The userland stuff should never lock the machine up. In an ideal world... Feel free to track down the cause and add code

[BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-04 Thread Patrick McFarland
I'm currently using an r200 (specifically, an agp 'ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QM [Radeon 9100]') on a uniproc Pentium 3 board equipped with an intel 440bx/piix4 type chipset (the agp controller is identified as 'Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)' All of this was

Re: [BUG] r200 dri driver deadlocks

2004-09-04 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:14:55 -0400, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of the DRI driver? Where do I look for that? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in

Re: Wow, r200 multiple app lockups SOLVED, but some flickering

2004-09-01 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:39:55 +0200, Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something about a patch that proves he is the second coming So, pplleeaassee say this is going in cvs! -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us

Re: vertex programs for r200 patch

2004-09-01 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:04:32 +0200, Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our Earth looks very nice with 'DOT3 ARBVP' in Clestia-1.3.1 (1.3.2 is out). Remarkable slower than 'Basic' and 'Multitexture' but very nice. So is this getting commited to cvs? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL

Re: Wow, r200 multiple app lockups SOLVED, but some flickering

2004-08-31 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:39:55 +0200, Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I can do stuff with my r200 which I've done two years ago with my Voodoo 5500 AGP. - GREAT! Several 'ipers', 'gloss', 'gears' and 'isosurf' run in parallel, now. Even two quake3-smp instances run (timedemo 1; demo

Re: vertex program support in r200 driver - patches

2004-08-20 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:40:12 +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached are patches to enable support for GL_ARB_vertex_program in the r200 driver. Thats very cool, but does this mean that it is hardware accelerated now? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vertex program support in r200 driver

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:09:44 +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just added vertex program support to the r200 driver. It uses the software emulation Mesa provies, though the hardware could do accelerated vertex programs. Thats really cool. -- Patrick Diablo-D3

Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Xorg] Code freeze extension

2004-08-15 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:45:19 +0200, Andreas Stenglein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) and got an error cc1: unknown C standard `c99' Ye gods, quit using such an old and broken compiler. -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man

Re: [Bug 849] [PATCH] Fix DRI pagesize assumptions in radeon and r128 drivers

2004-07-11 Thread Patrick McFarland
Does this fix the random crashing issue on ia32? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. --

more r200 lockup stuff (possible narrowing down?)

2004-07-09 Thread Patrick McFarland
Yup, its me again. I've decided to switch back to deb sid's xf 4.3.0 because I wanted a (mostly) stable system to develop gl apps on. I switched back, double checked everything as fine, and I went to play quake via darkplaces... and not so long in... it whacked my box. I was quite surprised, I

Re: r200 driver crashes

2004-07-02 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 03-Jul-2004, Dieter N??tzel wrote: But maybe a starting point? It is much simpler then 'Darkplaces'. Darkplaces is easy to compile, and all you'd need is the shardware episode 1 datafiles. However, yeah, its a pain because its completely random when it does it. Anyone have ideas? --

r200 driver crashes

2004-07-01 Thread Patrick McFarland
Hi, Im currently using the r200 snapshots, and some programs seem to randomly crash, taking themselves and X with them (the xserver doesnt segfault, it wont die even if you kill -9 it, and I cant restart X unless I restart the box) Apps like Celestia wont do it, but apps like Darkplaces (a quake

Re: [Xorg] DRI merging

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 14-Jun-2004, Dave Airlie wrote: So? My sister still uses a P120, and is happy with it. Why should she be forced to upgrade? I think that is a bit petty really, please try and keep this discussion some way in the bounds of logic, at some point you have to throw away older systems, X

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 04-Jun-2004, Mike Mestnik wrote: Right, but thay must not EVER step on each other. From the time one uploades a texture and then later unloads it, that space can't be used. After an unload the memory can be maped back to system use. I think the kernel's memory subsystem should be the

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 05-Jun-2004, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 12:21 +0300, Ville Syrj??l?? wrote: This part of the kernel should be as dumb as possible. I think the best interface would be simply one accepting almost complete DMA buffers. The only thing missing from these buffers would be

Re: Radeon 7200 problems

2004-06-05 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 05-Jun-2004, Ville Syrj?l? wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: I'm not sure about that; pseudo-command buffers that the DRM parses and generates the actual DMA buffers from on the fly might be better for security and/or performance reasons. Quite

dri cvs builds

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick McFarland
Is anyone currently doing daily dri cvs builds for x86? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Re: dri cvs builds

2004-06-02 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 03-Jun-2004, Felix K?hling wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:09:48 -0400 Patrick McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone currently doing daily dri cvs builds for x86? Yes. There is a cron job at freedesktop.org producing nightly snapshots. They can be downloaded from http

Re: savage dri + via-agp

2004-05-25 Thread Patrick McFarland
This may be unrelated, but what version of Xfree? 4.3.0 contains the first version of the savage driver, which imo is quite horrible compaired to the second version. (Its so bad, that the vesa 2D driver is faster than the savage 2D driver.) So, if you're doing a comparison between 4.3.0 and an X

Re: [Dri-devel] A question of bugs

2004-05-13 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 13-May-2004, Felix K?hling wrote: AFAIR it was decided to disable the SF bugtracker in favour of the XFree86 bugzilla. It just turned out that there was no way to really disable it. Project admins, correct me if I'm wrong. Nope, it _can_ be disabled quite easily. If you dont know how, ask

Yet another discussion on fbcon and dri

2004-05-12 Thread Patrick McFarland
Hey all, I've been following the discussion on driver simplification, and I'm not quite sure I understand everything that has been said. As I understand it, you are trying to make kernel drivers just init the hardware, and provide hooks for userspace software to drive the hardware themselves?

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Wiki Update

2004-04-27 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 27-Apr-2004, Alan Cox wrote: Standard problem with Wiki nowdays. Lots of dubious companies have crawlers that spam wikis with their URL then ask google to index the page to boost their google rating 8( So what we need is a Wiki frontend for SpamAssasin? -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland ||

[Dri-devel] Savage driver in DRI?

2004-04-26 Thread Patrick McFarland
Im trying to confirm if the new savage driver is actually in cvs now, anyone know? (And anyone here actually use it? Does it work?) -- Patrick Diablo-D3 McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in