On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
I know I have asked this before, but I can't seem to find my emails and
the mailing list archive does not seem to be responding.
What sort of back/forward compatibility is there with the XFree86 driver
modules? From memory last time I tested this,
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
Is that the correct approach? Or should we be building modules for each
released version of XFree86 (ie: 4.1.0, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.0, 4.2.1 etc)?
The compatibility we strive for (but
Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The binaries you provide for your driver should be generated against the
earliest (public) XFree86 version that provides the functionality your
driver depends on. If that means 4.1.0, then that means 4.1.0. This does
not absolve you of the
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The binaries you provide for your driver should be generated against the
earliest (public) XFree86 version that provides the functionality your
driver depends on. If that means 4.1.0, then that
Feigning erudition, Kendall Bennett wrote:
% Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% The binaries you provide for your driver should be generated against the
% earliest (public) XFree86 version that provides the functionality your
% driver depends on. If that means 4.1.0, then
Kendall,
You should also test against different distributions, different
compilers (gcc 3.2.x versus 2.95) and different C libraries.
In particular, modules compiled with gcc 2.95 might not work with
XFree86 compiled with gcc 3.2.x and vice versa..
best
Hi Guys,
I know I have asked this before, but I can't seem to find my emails and
the mailing list archive does not seem to be responding.
What sort of back/forward compatibility is there with the XFree86 driver
modules? From memory last time I tested this, if I compile a 4.2.0 module
it will
Feigning erudition, Kendall Bennett wrote:
% Hi Guys,
%
% I know I have asked this before, but I can't seem to find my emails and
% the mailing list archive does not seem to be responding.
%
% What sort of back/forward compatibility is there with the XFree86 driver
% modules? From memory last
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. I installed 4.3.0 on a crash test dummy at work today. I had
the mga_hal.o module from Matrox for 4.2.mumble. Copied it into
place, started X, and it seemed to load without incident - no
untoward messages in the log files and neither the monitor nor the
