On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Diego Liziero wrote: > I know that this issue has been already posted some time ago, > there are 2 main projects working on mach64 chip: > - gatos.sf.net (that is working on TVout and XVideo) > - dri.sf.net (as regards 3D) > > I think that both of them did a great job even if they are still beta. > > mach64 chip is getting older and older and these patches are still > out of the xfree86 CVS. > > Now I've to untar the beta dri drivers and restart X when I need 3d > and need to untar the beta gatos drivers and restart X when I need XVideo. > > I would really like if at least one of these 2 project is soon included > in XFree86 (with the default set to disabled if you're worried about > stability) so I've just to get the patched binaries of the other one > to have my mach64 card fully working.
Take a look at http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_xv.html. I have a DRI snapshot and a second set of binaries that integrate the GATOS and DRI mach64 drivers that you can install over the DRI snapshot. The binaries are for x86, but there is also a patch against the DRI mach64 branch in cvs that you can use to build the driver. This will give you 3D and XVideo support (I've tested overlay/scaling, but not TV-in/capture) with a single X server/driver. At some point I may get around to rolling these into a single binary package. At the moment the patch and binaries are based on 4.2.0, but I'll be updating them to 4.3.0 after the release. > And I think that this will lead to more beta testers that will hopefully > speed up the development (hoping that there are still people using > this old chipset). > > Could anyone here if this merge can happen before xfree86 4.3.0? No, it won't happen for 4.3.0. I don't know what the status of integrating the GATOS Xvideo functionality for mach64 into XFree86 is for future releases, but I know that it won't be done for 4.3.0. Maybe Marc can comment on his plans in that regard. As far as the DRI driver goes, we need to make some changes to secure the DMA path before it gets merged into the DRI cvs trunk. Also DMA is currently only working on x86, but there is a fallback MMIO path that has been tested and used successfully on ppc. Once the driver is merged into the DRI trunk, it will be a candidate for inclusion in XFree86. I hope that we can get this done well in advance of the next major XFree86 release (4.4.0?), but it depends on the free time of the developers. -- Leif Delgass http://www.retinalburn.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
