On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:16:17PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth writes: > > Actually, the address for Mr Bateman on the appropriate page seems to be > > dead, I was hoping that either my list posting might drag him out, or that > > Egbert might forward. > > David has other obligations that don't allow him to support the C&T > driver at the moment.
Rog. No problem. > > > It is worth trying 4.3.0 if you haven't already, or even something more > > > recent by downloading the XFree86 server and relevant module binaries > > > from Alan's page (www.xfree86.org/~alanh). > > > > Ok, I was wondering -- it's apparently a real pain to get 4.3 RPM's for 7.3 > > (which is the largest thing I can comfortably run on my laptop); Mike isn't > > building for that anymore, and no one else is either... and compiling all of > > X on a P-233... well, I wouldn't even wish that on me. > > I have made a patch now which takes care of some of the problems. > I cannot fix the artefacts that appear in the video overlay once > the video source has a certain size. I assume that this is a > limitation in the HW somewhere. Note, as I mentioned, that this was happening even in non-zoom mode; one source file was 320x200, and still have problems, another 640x480, likewise. > I can send you a binary for 4.3. however I assume that this will > not work for the version of XFree86 that was shipped with RH 7.3. Likely not. A binary of the driver? IE, if I can get a 4.3 built, it will drop in? Sure. > > I guess I'll try to setup a build machine. > > Course, it'll probably take me a month to figure out how to build X from > > scratch... :-} > > That's easier than you think. > 1. You get the tree. > 2. You change into the to directory. Assuming the tree is in your > home: > cd ~/xc > 3. You start the build: > make World > 4. You have some coffee. > 5. Build is done. > > For more information please check xc/INSTALL-X.org Does it build that cleanly these days? No pre-req hell? Cool. That's from the distribution, right; not cvs? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
