Meir Faraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 10 November 2000 16:29, you wrote:
> > Meir Faraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > If a linux distro wants a decent software dvd player, it must enable
> > > > > X4.0.1 with YUV overlay support --- on nvidia hardware, only this
> > > > > binary driver will do that
> > > >
> > > > So, we don't want a decent software dvd player.
> > >
> > > About dvd player ;-)
> > > Each time I reinstall LM mandrake I need to do a :
> > >
> > > ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXxf86dga.so libXxf86dga.a
> > > ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so libXv.a
> > > /sbin/ldconfig -v
> > >
> > > so that libXxf86dga.so and libXv.so exist an I could only after this
> > > compile OMS DVD PLAYER with support for DGA and XV .
> >
> > Usually there is no reason why this would not be possible with only .a
> > files. SDL for example use the dga and it works, it can even build a .so
> > out of SDL.
> >
>
> there is some problem to make .so with .a one ....
ld -shared --whole-archive -o file.so file.a
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-- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
An engineer from NVidia, while asking him to release cards specs said :
"Actually, we do write our drivers without documentation."
