On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:52:02PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:50:28PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:59:06PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: > >>On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:37:06PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote: > >>> > >>>I heard (second hand from via) that xfree86 2.3.99 has drivers > >>>for the CLE266 ( http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/cle266.jsp on a > >>>http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81 ) > > > >I got the cvs source this morning and it built without errors on my fast > >box. It's been compiling (for a while now) on the hardware I plan to > >run it from. I assume all will be okay. > > > >Here's my next question. After poking around in the source I found > >./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/via/ > > > >Lots of good stuff in that directory for making the CLE266 work... only > >how do in invoke it and confirm it's being run? It's confusing to me > >how a program (eg mplayer) would know to use xfree (and the cle266) for > >mpeg-2 decoding and not just do the decoding on its own. > > > > > >>4.3.99.9 has a known build problem (which you're seeing). Either try > >>4.3.99.8, or get the latest code via anoncvs. > > > >Humm, a README in that directory could contain note to that effect? > >or the changelog could be reissued for that file? Thanks for the fast > >responce anyhow. > > These are automatically generated code snapshots and nothing more. If > you look at <http://www.xfree86.org/develsnaps/> you'll see that there > is "no guanrantee that any given snapshot will build or run." > > >BTW - how do I tell what version of cvs I got? > > Assuming you checked out the trunk (which is the default), you got the > lastest development code as of the time you checked it out. The version > is "something later than the previous snapsnot".
What about marking the version as 4.3.99.x for the snapshot, and once it is released, mark the version as 4.3.99.x+ or 4.3.99.x+<co date> for the CVS versions, until a new snapshot is taken. Maybe it could only be done in the XFree86.0.log output code, and not the actual version be changed. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
