On Fri, 3 May 2002, Charles Bradshaw wrote: >Thanks you clearly know something about this. I don't really want to get >into a discussion about graphics development politics, but I think the >terseness and inexactness in your reply is clear! The distribution I am >installing has the components cyrix_drv.o, XF86_SVGA and XFree86 version >4.0.3 in it. Also documentation including a man page in respect of >cyrix. Perhaps I should take up the winge with RedHat.
I can be more exact. Red Hat Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 comes with XFree86 4.x which is the primary XFree86 shipped. In addition to that, we also ship the XFree86 3.3.6 servers, so that hardware that is not supported at all by 4.x, and/or hardware that is not supported very well under 4.x may still be used simply by using one of the 3.3.6 servers that better support the given piece of hardware. The 4.x Cyrix MediaGX driver does not function properly, as such Red Hat Linux uses 3.3.6 for this chipset. I've got a tablet PC with this chip in it (Casio Fiva) and looking into the 4.x issues with Cyrix MediaGX is on my _personaly_ list of things todo, however it is not my highest spare time priority. If someone who is familiar with the driver cares to fix it and/or add support for new chips, it likely would happen sooner. >My question to the list is setting out the problem as I see it >(on the screen). I am offering to spend time doing something to >fix a problem which is apparently common. A google search >specifying all words "cyrix mediagx xfree86 configuration" >produces over 1000 hits 99% of which are questions without >answers. I am determined to solve it. If you find a solution, please let us know. Thanks. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
