Thomas Winischhofer's excellent SiS-on-Linux site provides binaries and source for all of the drivers needed to use DRI with the SiS 300; however, the binary sis_dri.so is useful only for XFree compiled with gcc 2.95.
I used gcc 3.2.2 under redhat 9 to compile a new 2.4.21 kernel with the necessary framebuffer driver, patched the xfree 4.3.99 snapshot with Mr. Winischhofer's X driver source, and then built the SiS DRI module from an (unpatched) Xfree 4.2.1 source tree and copied the resulting sis_dri.so to the DRI modules directory of the 4.3.99 installation. the SiS DRI module from 4.2.1 works near-flawlessly under X built from the most recent snapshot; I'm not even using a standard SiS 300 card, but rather a 305.
how much trouble would it be to port this up (even unmodified) from the old source? I am not very familiar with autoconf/automake, but to me it looks like the pile-o'-unresolved-symbols when building the module shipped with the more recent source owes mostly to changes in the xc/lib/ directory structure and header files.
regardless, I would like to make the resulting sis_dri.so available publicly, as folks whose Xfree was built with gcc 3.2 might find it useful; can I assume this is permitted by the license?
thanks CR
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