On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:59:00 -0500, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:18:26 -0600, Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been looking at Xgl and mesa-solo recently and my interest has been > > piqued. I have been hacking on the mga drivers for a while now. What > > do we need to do to the mga framebuffer, DRM, DRI, and/or XAA drivers in > > order for the whole mga stack to be ready for Xgl and/or mesa-solo? How > > does the VGA/VESA console get along with this (i.e., is a framebuffer > > console a prerequisite?) What about restoring a sane state in the case > > of a software failure (either to the console or to the X server)? > > Look at how mesa-solo and the radeon driver work together. Right now > mesa-solo uses the radeon fbdev driver for mode setting. Dave Airlie > can probably give you hints on how to test that everything is working > right in an mga mesa-solo. > > No on has tried getting XGL running on top of mesa-solo. I don't know > of any obvious reason why it shouldn't work other than no one has > tried doing it yet. First check out that your mga mesa-solo is > running, there are test programs in the mesa tree for this. Then try > to get XGL running on top. This may require some work to XGL but post > your issues to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists and someone > will > answer. > > There is code in the X server for frequency scaling on radeon chips. > This is probably something that should be moved down into the radeon > fbdev or DRM drivers. >
Benh has dynamic clock code in radeonfb too. Alex > -- > Jon Smirl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel