Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-26 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:21:59AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I just checked the Debian binary, and indeed it isn't. IIRC patches existed a few years ago. They did/do exist, but were never completed. Same person who did the matrox accel for Xpmac (and who's name slips my mind right

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Kostas Gewrgiou
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 24 Jan 01 at 11:11, Ani Joshi wrote: I recently ran into an issue with the matroxfb driver and XFree86 4.0.2's matrox driver. Sometime in the past someone decided to use BE register access in matroxfb for BE machines, while this is probably

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 24 Jan 01 at 11:11, Ani Joshi wrote: I recently ran into an issue with the matroxfb driver and XFree86 4.0.2's matrox driver. Sometime in the past someone decided to use BE register access in

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Kostas Gewrgiou
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Nope it won't cause any problems, none of the XF[86][68]_FBDev servers where accelerated for matrox, other libs (SDL etc) that have accel for matroxfb

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: Changing the endian to little is the *right* thing, big-endian mode doesn't offer us anything beyond problems in matroxfb 8/16 bit accesses become a nightmare

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-25 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:38:25PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 24 Jan 01 at 11:11, Ani Joshi wrote: I recently ran into an issue with the matroxfb driver and XFree86 4.0.2's matrox

Re: [linux-fbdev] Matrox and XFree86 4.0.2 update

2001-01-24 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 24 Jan 01 at 11:11, Ani Joshi wrote: I recently ran into an issue with the matroxfb driver and XFree86 4.0.2's matrox driver. Sometime in the past someone decided to use BE register access in matroxfb for BE machines, while this is probably The Right Way, it produces problems in X. I can