David Dawes writes:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:25:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Specifically, there are people in Gnome chomping at the bit to help with
> >the xfree86 bug setup and triage problem, with experience at running
> >the Gnome bugzilla system.
>
> >Only time will tell how well this will work out, but my strong belief is
> >that the current situation doesn't scale, and our usage is likely to
> >go up greatly this calendar year as the open source desktop has finally
> >reached critical mass of applications and is beginning to be actively
> >marketed.
>
> I recall you saying the same thing a year ago. You didn't provide
> anything to backup your assertions then either.
>
> BTW, while I have you here, can you tell me when the bugs introduced
> with the integration of RandR into the core XFree86 server will be
> fixed? A particular case is rotation support being broken (kinda
> ironic given that the second "R" is for "Rotate"). I don't know
> how much longer the 4.3.0 release can be delayed waiting for this
> to be fixed, so if it isn't fixed soon, RandR will have to be
> disabled by default in 4.3.0. You don't seem to have your priorities
> straight -- you seem more interested in establishing a bug tracking
> system to track other people bugs than fixing bugs in your own code.
>
I have been experimenting with this over the Christmas holidays:
The reasoun why RandR breaks our old implementation of rotation
is that RandR overwrites the screen size values we have set in
fbScreenInit() after ScreenInit(). We could whack them again by
adding a ScreenCreateResources() however this may not go well with
RandR.
To make RandR rotation work one needs layer support. I have a
sample implementaion (it takes two lines per driver) however
this is too experimental to bee added to 4.3 I'm afraid.
It is also not clear how this may affect dual depth frame buffers
like the 8+24 bpp support in the MGA driver.
I didn't have time to look into that, yet.
Cheers,
Egbert.
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