Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
David Dawes wrote: Instead of Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, 6326 is provided by the sis driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also supported, but this code is new and there are some problems with it in this version. it should say Support (accelerated) for the SiS 6326, 530, 620, 300, 540, 630, 730, 315, 550, 650, 740 is provided by the sis driver. The Xabre (SiS 330) might be supported by this is completely untested. Thanks. I've made those changes. ARGH... just saw that: Please add 5597/5598 to this list, and remove it from the summary line. Sorry, I really lost track :) So, for copy-paste convenience: -- 4.3.0: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 5597/5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 540, 630, 730, 315, 550, 650, M650, 651 and 740 is provided by the sis driver. The Xabre (SiS 330) might be supported by this is completely untested. Summary: Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215 and 86C225 is currently only available in 3.3.6. Support for some newer chipsets is only available in 4.3.0. Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.winischhofer.net/ ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:05:17AM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:49:52AM +0100, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. Thanks to all who sent in items for the release notes. I've put updated versions of the docs for 4.3.0 at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/. Further updates for the release notes and other docs are welcome. The final section of the release notes needs to be reviewed too. Hi David, In: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 (2.1. Video Driver Enhancements) I read: National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1, and GX2 chipset support added with the nsc driver. Maybe there should be a nsc section added to: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status.html (Driver Status for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0) ? Yes, I'll add a National Semiconductor section. Btw: I'm wondering if this new nsc obsoletes the Cyrix driver for the Cyrix MediaGX ? I'm not sure. Alan, can you clarify this? The nsc driver certainly obsoletes the cyrix driver for the 5530. But I've heard rumours that it doesn't cope with the older style VSA1 5530 chips very well in which the cyrix driver may still be needed. But, additionally, the cyrix driver deals with 5510 and 5520 chips, whereas the nsc driver doesn't. Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:33:13PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Thanks to all who sent in items for the release notes. I've put updated versions of the docs for 4.3.0 at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/. Further updates for the release notes and other docs are welcome. The final section of the release notes needs to be reviewed too. There are some sections of the RELNOTES that are unchanged for a long time, the attached patch cleans it and adds a brief description of the recent changes to xedit. Thanks Paulo, I've committed your changes. It'd be great if people reponsible for the other sections could review them too. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. Thanks to all who sent in items for the release notes. I've put updated versions of the docs for 4.3.0 at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/. Further updates for the release notes and other docs are welcome. The final section of the release notes needs to be reviewed too. Hi David, In: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 (2.1. Video Driver Enhancements) I read: National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1, and GX2 chipset support added with the nsc driver. Maybe there should be a nsc section added to: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status.html (Driver Status for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0) ? Btw: I'm wondering if this new nsc obsoletes the Cyrix driver for the Cyrix MediaGX ? greetings, Rob van Nieuwkerk ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: In: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 (2.1. Video Driver Enhancements) I read: National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1, and GX2 chipset support added with the nsc driver. Maybe there should be a nsc section added to: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status.html (Driver Status for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0) ? Someone probably has to write a patch to the docs I presume... Btw: I'm wondering if this new nsc obsoletes the Cyrix driver for the Cyrix MediaGX ? No, the nsc driver is a bit different. As I understand things it's the same video chip but with a different BIOS. I'll leave someone more familiar with these chips to provide a more detailed answer though. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:49:52AM +0100, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. Thanks to all who sent in items for the release notes. I've put updated versions of the docs for 4.3.0 at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/. Further updates for the release notes and other docs are welcome. The final section of the release notes needs to be reviewed too. Hi David, In: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 (2.1. Video Driver Enhancements) I read: National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1, and GX2 chipset support added with the nsc driver. Maybe there should be a nsc section added to: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status.html (Driver Status for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0) ? Yes, I'll add a National Semiconductor section. Btw: I'm wondering if this new nsc obsoletes the Cyrix driver for the Cyrix MediaGX ? I'm not sure. Alan, can you clarify this? David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On 22 Feb 2003, Jeff Brubaker wrote: No problem. It's possible the option you used worked around the problem. I found the true problem yesterday though (whew). ;o) Heh.. I spoke too soon yesterday. When I tried the new packages, I merely restarted XFree86. Today, the machine locked after a full reboot. It works with ForceInit, but not without, even with the newer packages. Sorry for the confusion. Hmm, weird. Dunno what to say about that one. I unfortunately do not have any savage hardware personally, and don't have specs for that chip either, so I'm not too sure what I'll be able to do to diagnose/debug any problems. All I've been doing is auditing driver changes over time and reverting suspects. It might be something that the driver maintainer (Tim) might have to investigate, however keep in mind that he is busy right now with other things I understand and might not be able to look into it right away. The more user feedback we all get from users with problems though, perhaps someone can determine problems and propose a fix. There's one issue I know of where 24bit depth doesn't work properly. Whoa, deja vu. After you mentioning DPMS on DFP, I decided to have a look at the DPMS code in the radeon driver, and the R200 specs. I just implemented DPMS on Radeon yesterday for DFP/LCD, but also noted the existing DPMS code looks a bit more complex than it needs to be, so I'm going to take a stab at rewriting Radeon DPMS support after 4.3.0 is out, using the documented DISP_PWR_MAN_DPMS instead of the current mechanism. The patch above is similar to what I've written, but still incomplete. I've had several people test my latest Radeon driver out with DPMS on CRT alone, LCD alone, DFP alone, and combination of CRT+LCD and CRT+DFP, but not on dual DFP (they're more rare). I'll probably send my DPMS patch in for potential 4.3.0 inclusion, but if it doesn't get in, then it's on my ftpsite for those interested. Sweet. Looking forward to it. The patch works great for several people with a variety of different display combinations, however I've had a bug report now from someone using just a CRT where DPMS causes the monitor to go into and out of suspend over and over. That sucks because the changes I added didn't touch the CRT path. I've decided in the interest of not causing regression to disable my patch until I can investigate things more closely, so I am not going to submit it for 4.3.0 inclusion at this stage. Perhaps it can be included in the 4.3 stable branch post 4.3.0 once I've had time to work the kinks out though. ;o/ -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 13:11, Mike A. Harris wrote: No problem. It's possible the option you used worked around the problem. I found the true problem yesterday though (whew). ;o) Heh.. I spoke too soon yesterday. When I tried the new packages, I merely restarted XFree86. Today, the machine locked after a full reboot. It works with ForceInit, but not without, even with the newer packages. Sorry for the confusion. Whoa, deja vu. After you mentioning DPMS on DFP, I decided to have a look at the DPMS code in the radeon driver, and the R200 specs. I just implemented DPMS on Radeon yesterday for DFP/LCD, but also noted the existing DPMS code looks a bit more complex than it needs to be, so I'm going to take a stab at rewriting Radeon DPMS support after 4.3.0 is out, using the documented DISP_PWR_MAN_DPMS instead of the current mechanism. The patch above is similar to what I've written, but still incomplete. I've had several people test my latest Radeon driver out with DPMS on CRT alone, LCD alone, DFP alone, and combination of CRT+LCD and CRT+DFP, but not on dual DFP (they're more rare). I'll probably send my DPMS patch in for potential 4.3.0 inclusion, but if it doesn't get in, then it's on my ftpsite for those interested. Sweet. Looking forward to it. Jeff -- Jeff Brubaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
If we go into details we should definitely add: Added BigEndian support to the CT driver. Egbert. Juliusz Chroboczek writes: Oh, and what about the Savage changes? XFree86 no longer crashes the TwisterK, which is important for a lot of people. Unless Tim is around, here's my proposal: Fixes Savage problems on the TwisterK, including hangs in the Blaster xscreensaver hack and hangs with XVideo. Also fixes incorrect memory size detection. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:06:57AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: I've got a minimum of 5 bug reports stating that Savage MX/IX is broken in CVS XFree86 completely, and I've got at least 15 users begging me daily for fixes. I have been in contact with Tim Roberts about these issues, and his latest driver 1.1.27t fixes these issues. I didn't say the driver in CVS XFree86 was broken on this hardware for no reason. It may perhaps work for some users, but it is definitely broken for many. It is rare that I get more than 3 or so users report any particular XFree86 issue. Since users testing Tim's binary driver report that it fixes the problems for them, I have updated Red Hat XFree86 4.2.99.902 packages with Tim Robert's latest 1.1.27t driver, and patched in the 1.1.26t-1.1.26 CVS changes on top of it, however I have not gotten feedback from the users who have reported the driver being broken as to wether the new driver in our packaging works for them yet or not. If my latest build does work, then I was going to recommend that the savage driver be updated to 1.1.27t in CVS prior to 4.3.0, but if it does not work, then some change that went into XFree86 CVS on top of 1.1.26t broke support for these chips. Sorry - I didn't mean to imply that the driver was fine and you were wrong. I was merely suggesting that there was a workaround that fixed the problem for me(tm). The driver didn't work at all for me until I tried that option. Thanks for the notice on the packages. I'll install them this weekend and let you know the results. In other news, DPMS is still broken on my Radeon VE - Flat Panel (DVI). I don't have a DVI panel, or I'd have a look at that. Perhaps Hui or someone can take a stab at it though. Or, send me a DVI panel. ;o) There was a suggested patch sent to xpert, but I don't know what happened as a result: http://www.spinics.net/lists/xf-xpert/msg08069.html Jeff ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:02, Jeff Brubaker wrote: Thanks for the notice on the packages. I'll install them this weekend and let you know the results. Mike, I've upgraded from XFree86-4.2.99.901-20030209.1 to XFree86-4.2.99.902-20030218.3 and I can now start X without the ForceInit option. Thanks for the update. :) Jeff -- Jeff Brubaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
Please add: * Major SCO OpenServer Updates Kean ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 18:05, Ian Romanick wrote: Mark Cuss wrote: A quick question regarding the 9500 and 9700 series Radeons - is support for 3D acceleration planned? Eventually, someday, if ATI releases the relavent documentation and enough developers have the time to do the work. In the meantime, if you're on x86 Linux (or perhaps some BSD flavors that can use Linux binaries), ATI has a very nice binary-only driver. The problem right now is that, even if ATI released all of the documentation available for the chip, there's not enough people with enough time and the right skill sets to bring-up a 3D driver for a new chip. :( In fact, if there was a group of people with enough time and expertise to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if ATI didn't hesitate to provide documentation to them. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
Right - I understand why it would be a ton of work to do this, even if ATI did provide the docs. I've played with ATI's binary driver a bit, and noticed in one of the later versions they support the XvPutImage call, but no XvPutVideo. The GATOS drivers allow the use of XvPutVideo, but I don't think I can use these along with the ATI binary drivers - I think its one or the other - someone correct me if this assumption is wrong. It would be nice to have the cake and eat it too :) Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Dänzer Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0 On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 18:05, Ian Romanick wrote: Mark Cuss wrote: A quick question regarding the 9500 and 9700 series Radeons - is support for 3D acceleration planned? Eventually, someday, if ATI releases the relavent documentation and enough developers have the time to do the work. In the meantime, if you're on x86 Linux (or perhaps some BSD flavors that can use Linux binaries), ATI has a very nice binary-only driver. The problem right now is that, even if ATI released all of the documentation available for the chip, there's not enough people with enough time and the right skill sets to bring-up a 3D driver for a new chip. :( In fact, if there was a group of people with enough time and expertise to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if ATI didn't hesitate to provide documentation to them. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
Oh, and what about the Savage changes? XFree86 no longer crashes the TwisterK, which is important for a lot of people. Unless Tim is around, here's my proposal: Fixes Savage problems on the TwisterK, including hangs in the Blaster xscreensaver hack and hangs with XVideo. Also fixes incorrect memory size detection. (There's probably more, but that's the ones that were biting me.) Juliusz ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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On 21 Feb 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Oh, and what about the Savage changes? XFree86 no longer crashes the TwisterK, which is important for a lot of people. Unless Tim is around, here's my proposal: Fixes Savage problems on the TwisterK, including hangs in the Blaster xscreensaver hack and hangs with XVideo. Also fixes incorrect memory size detection. (There's probably more, but that's the ones that were biting me.) The CVS XFree86 savage 1.1.26 driver is useless on Savage MX and Savage IX. The 'vesa' driver works on those 2 though. I'm told it broke sometime in December. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:24:54AM -0500, Jeff Brubaker wrote: Hmm... just reread Tim's page and his notice has nothing to do with general operation. Not sure why it worked for me, but it does. 1.1.27t is working much better, but I think Tim is a little tied up at the moment to get it fully released. Cheers, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matt Wilson Manager, Base Operating Systems Red Hat, Inc. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
RandR integration with partial enable of features? -Original Message- From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RELNOTES for 4.3.0 Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm) support. * AMD x86-64 support. * Support for OpenBSD/sparc64. * Major OS/2 support updates. * 2D Acceleration for the Trident CyberBladeXP/Ai1 chipsets * Intel 845G support for Xvideo, 2D and 3D. * nVidia GeForce 4 support * ATI Radeon 9x00 support for 2D and 3D excluding the 9500 and 9700 for 3D acceleration. (Need comments about M7,M9 support ) * Major SiS driver updates for some of the latest chipsets. Unfortunately the SiS 3D driver has had to be disabled. No one took up the challenge to port the driver to Mesa 4.x. * National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1 and GX2 chipset support. * Indirect GLX acceleration for the MacOS X Xserver. * Rootless Xserver for Cygwin/XFree86 (experimental) * An Xcursor library for alpha blended and animated cursors. Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
I'm wondering why my fonts have become so very beutiful since 4.2... :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm) support. * AMD x86-64 support. * Support for OpenBSD/sparc64. * Major OS/2 support updates. * 2D Acceleration for the Trident CyberBladeXP/Ai1 chipsets * Intel 845G support for Xvideo, 2D and 3D. * nVidia GeForce 4 support * ATI Radeon 9x00 support for 2D and 3D excluding the 9500 and 9700 for 3D acceleration. (Need comments about M7,M9 support ) * Major SiS driver updates for some of the latest chipsets. Unfortunately the SiS 3D driver has had to be disabled. No one took up the challenge to port the driver to Mesa 4.x. * National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1 and GX2 chipset support. * Indirect GLX acceleration for the MacOS X Xserver. * Rootless Xserver for Cygwin/XFree86 (experimental) * An Xcursor library for alpha blended and animated cursors. Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Thomas Zander ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Major OS/2 support updates. ??? Where do they come from? Frank. -- Frank Giessler Klinikum der Universitaet Jena Tel.: +49-3641-9 35259 Biomagnetisches Zentrum Fax : +49-3641-9 35355 ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:37:45 +0100, Frank Giessler wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Major OS/2 support updates. ??? Where do they come from? Holger Veit. Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 12:14, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. [...] * ATI Radeon 9x00 support for 2D and 3D excluding the 9500 and 9700 for 3D acceleration. It might be worth mentioning the new features of the Radeon 3D drivers (hardware TCL, ...)? (Need comments about M7,M9 support ) Both fully supported AFAICT. The vertical blank ioctl in the DRM might also be worth pointing out? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:28:12PM +0100, Holger Veit wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:49:07AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:37:45 +0100, Frank Giessler wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Major OS/2 support updates. ??? Where do they come from? Holger Veit. To be precise, considerable work has been done for this release by Frank Giessler. Honour to those who really deserve it. I'm puzzled why it was Frank who asked the question then... Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 01:05 PM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To be precise, considerable work has been done for this release by Frank Giessler. Honour to those who really deserve it. I'm puzzled why it was Frank who asked the question then... Sorry for the confusion, I didn't realize that the mentioned updates were already one year old. That was before my activity. Frank. -- Frank Giessler Klinikum der Universitaet Jena Tel.: +49-3641-9 35259 Biomagnetisches Zentrum Fax : +49-3641-9 35355 ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
At 11:14 AM + 2/19/03, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Indirect GLX acceleration for the MacOS X Xserver. Some other Mac OS X Xserver improvements (summarize as you see fit): - Smaller memory footprint and faster 2-D drawing in rootless mode - Full screen mode uses shadowfb for much faster 2-D drawing At 6:12 PM +0100 2/19/03, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Partial rewrite of the ``freetype'' backend. The new version is based on FreeType 2, and handles TrueType (including OpenType/TTF), OpenType/CFF and Type 1 fonts. The old ``type1'' font backend is deprecated, and only used for CIDFonts by default. And - Ability to use native fonts on Mac OS X --Torrey ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm) support. * AMD x86-64 support. * Support for OpenBSD/sparc64. * Major OS/2 support updates. * 2D Acceleration for the Trident CyberBladeXP/Ai1 chipsets * Intel 845G support for Xvideo, 2D and 3D. * nVidia GeForce 4 support NVIDIA nForce2 integrated graphics, GeForce4, GeForce FX support. * ATI Radeon 9x00 support for 2D and 3D excluding the 9500 and 9700 for 3D acceleration. (Need comments about M7,M9 support ) * Major SiS driver updates for some of the latest chipsets. Unfortunately the SiS 3D driver has had to be disabled. No one took up the challenge to port the driver to Mesa 4.x. * National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1 and GX2 chipset support. * Indirect GLX acceleration for the MacOS X Xserver. * Rootless Xserver for Cygwin/XFree86 (experimental) * An Xcursor library for alpha blended and animated cursors. Alan. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
Gatos is focussing on video and TV playback, TV/video-in functionality and video capture. But they are _not_ focussed on 3D to my understanding. thanks for the link to the AIW Radeon 9700 comments. the text outlines that even gatos has not timeframe how their development will proceed. for my understanding its partly related to the limited personal time they do have for dealing with that device. (okay maybe its meant different, but thats how i read that.) -Alex. Gatos have acording to http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php recived document ans sample hardware from ATI. an Romanick wrote: Mark Cuss wrote: A quick question regarding the 9500 and 9700 series Radeons - is support for 3D acceleration planned? Eventually, someday, if ATI releases the relavent documentation and enough developers have the time to do the work. In the meantime, if you're on x86 Linux (or perhaps some BSD flavors that can use Linux binaries), ATI has a very nice binary-only driver. The problem right now is that, even if ATI released all of the documentation available for the chip, there's not enough people with enough time and the right skill sets to bring-up a 3D driver for a new chip. :( ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0
Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. I'd suggest the following s3virge driver note: Doublescan modes (320x200) are supported and tested in depth 8 and 16 on DX, but disable XVideo. Doublescan modes on other chipsets are untested. (From patch #5617) -- Kevin ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
