[Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-14 Thread Alex Deucher
I'd be willing to donate to support DRI development. I'd even be willing to donate a substantial amount assuming it would guarantee some results. Maybe a project like this would catch the eye of the HW vendors and prompt them to put more effort into opensource drivers. Alex - Dear

[Dri-devel] Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project.

2001-09-19 Thread Alex Deucher
for what it's worth, there is cyberblade documentation available at this web site: http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~bellet/trident/ Alex --- On Wednesday 19 September 2001 14:34, Alan Hourihane wrote: What about setting another Chipset rather than options ?

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 FAQ was: 2 second question: radeon TL

2002-01-30 Thread Alex Deucher
Does anyone have any news on support for iDCT and Motion-Compensation or any of the video related features of the radeons? Do the reference drivers from ATi have anything for these features? Just curious. Thanks, Alex --- Jose Fonseca wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 14:17,

RE: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 FAQ was: 2 second question: radeon T L

2002-01-31 Thread Alex Deucher
Yeah the iDCT/MC stuff was what I was talking about. Have they released the specs for this part of the chips to developers so that an open source version may be possible at some point? Thanks for the information, Alex --- Vladimir Dergachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2002,

RE: [Dri-devel] i830 and SiS 3D Drivers

2002-04-03 Thread Alex Deucher
I'm not sure they are the official maintainers, but as far as I recall, Thomas Winischhofer has done a lot with Sis and DRI, etc. (like make the driver actually work) (http://www.webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml), and Matthew Sottek has done much of the work for i810/830. Alex

[Dri-devel] OT: S3 Savage utah-glx XF 4.x driver working

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Deucher
I just saw over at the utah-glx project that the S3 savage 3D driver is working with XF 4.x. It's not DRI, but for those who are interested, I thought I'd point it out... maybe a good start for those looking to port to the DRI. Alex __ Do You

[Dri-devel] SiS Specifications

2002-06-27 Thread Alex Deucher
I don't think the docs are much help with regard to 3D. there actually is a working sis DRI driver for 300 series chips that can be found here: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml perhaps it could be synced up to the current DRI tree. Alex Might want to post

[Dri-devel] Xv and OpenGL -- new module idea

2002-09-30 Thread Alex Deucher
I'm pretty unfamiliar with OpenGL programming. I have an idea for an xfree module that I suspect would not be too hard to implement, but I wanted to get some other opinions on it. What I'd like to do is create a module called perhaps ogl-xv or glx-xv that would provide a generic Xv adapter on

[Dri-devel] Re: [Xpert]Xv and OpenGL -- new module idea

2002-10-02 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 22:14, Alex Deucher wrote: I'm pretty unfamiliar with OpenGL programming. I have an idea for an xfree module that I suspect would not be too hard to implement, but I wanted to get some other opinions on it. What I'd like to do is create a module called perhaps ogl

Re: [Dri-devel] Xv and OpenGL -- new module idea

2002-10-01 Thread Alex Deucher
yeah xawtv has an opengl plugin as well. I'll take a look if I ever get a chance to. thanks for the suggestion. Alex --- Stefan Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: I'm pretty unfamiliar with OpenGL programming. I have an idea for an xfree module that I suspect would

[Dri-devel] [Xpert]Savage and nVidia DRI drivers

2002-10-31 Thread Alex Deucher
I'd be interested in helping out with the savage work. I don't know much about the DRI, but I can help test. I'm actually working (slowly) on adding dual head (duoview) support to the savage driver for the mobile savages. I've started on the code, but I've been so busy lately that I've had no

[Dri-devel] [XFree86] new devloper

2003-01-29 Thread Alex Deucher
Dave you might try the DRI ML if this is about 3D acceleration. (i've cc'd the list) Alex --- hi i sent you an email some time ago but have not got any reply i need some help FAST! as the driver is now veary close to ready !! can you let me know even if some one

[Dri-devel] GLX Proxy and Cr integration...

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Deucher
I saw this posted on the dmx-devel (dmx.sf.net) ML today. Is anyone familiar with the GLX proxy work? does it work with the DRI? Could this be a solution for HW accelerated indirect rendering? what's teh status of GLX Proxy and DMX? I'm very interested in it; also in conjunction with DMX.

Re: [Dri-devel] GLX Proxy and Cr integration...

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Deucher
questions on the DMX list. Let's keep the discussion there (or at least cc the DMX list) so that people on the DMX list don't miss out. DMX, GLXProxy and Chromium really don't have anything to do with the DRI in particular. -Brian Alex Deucher wrote: I saw this posted on the dmx

Re: [Dri-devel] Dual-head (also S3 savage Duoview)

2003-02-24 Thread Alex Deucher
I too am curious about that. I've been working on adding duoview support to the s3 savage driver. I talked to Tim Roberts a while back and I figured out the basics of how it works. I've got a semi-working driver, but alas, I think I need some help getting the second crtc to output to the vga

Re: [Dri-devel] Dual-head (also S3 savage Duoview)

2003-02-24 Thread Alex Deucher
I too am curious about that. I've been working on adding duoview support to the s3 savage driver. I talked to Tim Roberts a while back and I figured out the basics of how it works. I've got a semi-working driver, but alas, I think I need some help getting the second crtc to output to the vga

Re: [Dri-devel] Dual-head (also S3 savage Duoview)

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:28:15PM -0800, Alex Deucher wrote: right now for these chips you set up the entity as shareable and then divide your framebuffer into two or more frambuffers, one for each CRTC. Each instance of the driver then works

Re: [Dri-devel] Dual-head (also S3 savage Duoview)

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Sven Luther wrote: Yes, and you have to divide the fb memory in two, one for each head, or something such, and each head will have its separate offscreen memory manager, possibly using different screen strides. Side

[Dri-devel] Dual-head direct 3D rendering working

2003-03-04 Thread Alex Deucher
I'd be very interested in seeing your code, hacky or not. We were actually just discussing this on this list and on the devel list at xfree86.org. David Dawes said he has some preliminary work for setting up multiple viewports into a single framebuffer. Sven Luther and myself, among others,

Re: [Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Deucher
Gabucino, Do you know if either plugin uses MESA_ycbcr_texture? this would avoid the need for you to convert YUV data to RGB in order to render it as a texture. Should speed things up of OGL. when I looked at the xine plugin source, it did not support this. For systems that do not support

[Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture

2003-06-03 Thread Alex Deucher
I've been thinking of trying to implement an XV adapter using OpenGL and MESA_ycbcr_texture for YUV or regular RGB textures for RGB video. This would not only provide a default Xv adapter (in the event that the hw didn't have one) or it would provide hw accelerated video playback on hw that

Re: [Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture

2003-06-03 Thread Alex Deucher
perhaps it would be better to just write opengl output plugins for video applications that used MESA_ycbcr_texture. However, looking at the code for several video apps, most that have an OGL output still use RGB textures with the the YUV-RGB conversion done in software. Alex --- Keith Whitwell

Re: [Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture

2003-06-03 Thread Alex Deucher
whoops... I meant to replay to all... --- Keith Whitwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure I quite understand you - but definitely changing those apps to use the Mesa extension (if available) would be a win. They convert the YUV frames to RGB in software and then display them as OGL

Re: [Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture

2003-06-04 Thread Alex Deucher
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michel Dänzer Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:42 AM To: Alex Deucher Cc: Keith Whitwell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] [RFC] New Xv adapter using MESA_ycbcr_texture On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 00:09, Alex Deucher wrote: perhaps

[Dri-devel] DRI and screen resize in MergedFB mode

2003-06-11 Thread Alex Deucher
I've had several reports of DRI not working after a screen resize using mergedfb code. I haven't really had time to tackle it, and unfortunately, i'm not real familiar with how DRI interacts with a mode change or xrandr. I was hoping someone on this list could point me to where to look for DRI

[Dri-devel] re: [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for cvs

2003-06-02 Thread Alex Deucher
BTW, bugzilla reference for this feature is here: http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 Please test and post any comments or issues. Thanks, Alex --- The attached patch adds mergedfb support (a single framebuffer with two viewports looking

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI and screen resize in MergedFB mode

2003-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:47, Alex Deucher wrote: I've had several reports of DRI not working after a screen resize using mergedfb code. I haven't really had time to tackle it, and unfortunately, i'm not real familiar with how DRI interacts

[Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for cvs

2003-06-01 Thread Alex Deucher
The attached patch adds mergedfb support (a single framebuffer with two viewports looking into it) to the radeon driver. the options are consistant with the sis and mga drivers. I've also replaced the old clone mode with the clone mode supplied by the mergedfb code. It's behavior follows that

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI and screen resize in MergedFB mode

2003-06-16 Thread Alex Deucher
I've looked through the code and all the DRILock() and DRIUnlock() seem to be right. the only things that stands out as potentially suspicious is in RADEONAdjustFrame(): void RADEONAdjustFrame(int scrnIndex, int x, int y, int flags) { ScrnInfoPtrpScrn = xf86Screens[scrnIndex];

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI and screen resize in MergedFB mode

2003-06-16 Thread Alex Deucher
Ah... good eye. I'll give that a try. thanks for the help. Alex --- Felix Kühling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked through the code and all the DRILock() and DRIUnlock() seem to be right. the only

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI and screen resize in MergedFB mode

2003-06-16 Thread Alex Deucher
I just wanted to thank you guys for your help. That fixed the bug! see the latest updates here: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 Thanks! Alex --- Felix Kühling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I don't have any experience with multi-head configurations.

Re: [Dri-devel] CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-06-18 Thread Alex Deucher
For what it's worth I'm seeing the same behavior on my m6 using Xfree86 CVS from a couple weeks ago. I have to rmmod radeon to and restart X to get 3D to work. same messages in my log file. Alex --- José Fonseca wrote: (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created radeon driver at busid

Re: [Dri-devel] CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-06-20 Thread Alex Deucher
on good time. When I have something worth to test I'll make some snapshots from this branch too. Jos#233; Fonseca On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:41:03AM +0200, Paul Heldens wrote: I'm experiencing the same. On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:16, Alex Deucher wrote: For what it's worth I'm

Re: [Dri-devel] Gamma DRM driver status

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Deucher
Alan, I don't suppose they released any code or docs for duoview support for the old savage chips? I tried to add support for that a while back, but never was able to get it to work. Alex --- Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 13:33, Alan Hourihane wrote: No

Re: [Dri-devel] Gamma DRM driver status

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Deucher
Plus XvMC! --- José Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Savage: Savage MX/IX/ SuperSavage/ ProSavage/ Twister/K It seams that at the moment DRI is only enabled for the Twister and ProSavage: if ((psav-Chipset == S3_TWISTER) || (psav-Chipset == S3_PROSAVAGE)) { /* Setup

Re: [Dri-devel] Gamma DRM driver status

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Deucher
I don't know about the 3D stuff, but the 2D driver seems cleaner and easier to follow than the current one (which this new one seems to be based on) at first glance anyway... Alex --- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Alan

Re: [Dri-devel] Gamma DRM driver status

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Deucher
I have a t20 I can test on as well. I also plan to re-attempt dualhead support using the new code as a base. Alex --- Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:21:30AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Alan

Re: [Dri-devel] Only normal DRI and Mesa CVS access as developer, now?

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Deucher
what about https://savannah.nongnu.org/ Alex --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jos? Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not then the solution would imply moving the CVS repository to a new machine, but where would that be? XFree86.org? Some SF look-a-like? As far as I know

Re: [Dri-devel] Savage-1_0_0-branch

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Deucher
CVS at sourceforge is using the backup server which has data that is 24+ hours old. I wasn't able to get it either. Alex --- Maximo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:13 AM 24/6/2003, you wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:00:57PM +0600, Dimitry N. Naldaev wrote: В сообщении от 24 Июнь 2003

Re: [Dri-devel] Reverse engineering Windows Radeon IGP320/340 driver?

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Deucher
once the agpgart stuff is in place I don't imagine it'll be that hard to add DRI support to the radeon/r200 driver. I think the IGP chips are pretty similar to their counterparts with dedicated memory. if the 9100IGP is anything like a 9200 it should work with the r200 driver with a little work

[Dri-devel] SiS news

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Deucher
I just saw this on extremetech today: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1101038,00.asp Looks like SiS is spinning off it's graphics chip division. perhaps this could mean better access to databooks! time will tell I suppose. Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC

Re: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's

2003-06-26 Thread Alex Deucher
I don't know what's involved in making the DRI work on multiple physical graphics cards, but if you want HW accelerated 3D on a dualheaded radeon card check out my mergedfb patch: http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276 I'm not sure you'll be able to get dual independant 3D

RE: [Dri-devel] Want to help enable DRI on multiple-head cfg's

2003-06-26 Thread Alex Deucher
thru the mergedfb patch code asap. I think your idea of sharing one framebuffer as 2 virtual fb's could work...thanks! -dean andreakis -Original Message- From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:27 PM To: Andreakis, Dean (MED); [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Dri-devel] Building from Savage-1_0_0-branch

2003-06-27 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Gwe, 2003-06-27 at 18:42, Alan Hourihane wrote: The savage-1_0_0-branch wont work until the 3D driver is fixed up for Mesa 4.x - it's still based on Mesa 3.4. Is there any good info on doing this since the CLE266 driver has the same problem

Re: [Dri-devel] Building from Savage-1_0_0-branch

2003-06-29 Thread Alex Deucher
and virge too possibly :) Speaking of which if anyone wants a virge board for testing/porting, I've got an old GX (and possibly a DX as well) sitting around. Alex --- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2003-06-27 at 18:42, Alan Hourihane wrote: The

[Dri-devel] glxproxy and dmx with DRI

2003-06-30 Thread Alex Deucher
The DMX (distributed multihead X) project has support for the GLX extesion using some code from SGI called GLXproxy. I'm not familiar with how it works exactly. Could this code be used to add support for DRI for multiple video cards in the same machine? Or perhaps indirect rendering? like

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-users] Radeon Driver issue? (OpenGL + new radeon_drv.o)

2003-07-09 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Richard F Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess my next questions are: 1) is the 2048x2048 a HW limitation, or a SW/implementation limitation AFAIK the maximum size of the GL context is a hardware issue. However, it shouldn't matter where it is displayed, that is it should

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 9800 devel?

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Deucher
2D support (just chip IDs) was recently added to xfree86 CVS. You can download that and test it or grab a pre-compiled binary here: http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ For 3D support you have to use Ati's binary driver. Alex --- Matthew Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whom do I contact about Radeon

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The comments regarding this code are a bit sparce and seem to imply that the support was added for clone mode. Mergedfb works similarly to clone mode, however there are some differences; for instance if you have two heads side by side. 3D

[Dri-devel] Fwd: Re: [Savage40] Better Driver Out There

2003-07-10 Thread Alex Deucher
Some tips for those of you messing with the savage driver. Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com---BeginMessage--- Here are some hints on how to build the VIA/S3 Savage driver. You need to make a couple of

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 00:24, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel Dnzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3D seems to work pretty well in mergedfb mode, but there are a few little issues, Can you elaborate on these? They are mentioned here

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-13 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 00:34, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel Dnzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 00:24, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel Dnzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3D seems to work pretty well in mergedfb mode

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D#228;nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 02:59, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel Dnzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 00:34, Alex Deucher wrote: however, the framebuffer on crtc1 is still shifted a few pixels to the left when you run

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
For those of you looking to do 2 screens of 1280x1024, you can always to an over/under config (1280x2048) that should get around the 2048 limit. not optimal, but... Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

Re: [Dri-devel] inter_module_foo in 2.5

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
Speaking of agp, what would be needed to add apg 8x support to the radeon driver? does the value of 'apgmode' just get passed on to the agpcode? I'd imagine there might be some bits to flip on the radeon. Alex --- Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Any comments ? The linkage

Re: [Dri-devel] inter_module_foo in 2.5

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
thats what I meant :) --- Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:04:33AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: Speaking of agp, what would be needed to add apg 8x support to the radeon driver? does the value of 'apgmode' just get passed on to the agpcode? I'd imagine

Re: [Dri-devel] mergedfb, cliprects, and DRI

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes... my algebra skills are getting rusty... yes, they are equilvalent. now the question is, should they be (I assume so)? Yes. I'm not sure how pageflipping is supposed to work. The idea is that the DRM should preserve the

[Dri-devel] User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? everything from revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding a new Xfree86 3D

[Dri-devel] Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Deucher
What about tungsten graphics or Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. (Tim Robert's company? Plus I'm sure there are other small development companies that would be interested. Alex --- Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up

[Dri-devel] Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Deucher
Support for HW accelerated indirect rendering is just a matter of restructuring some library interfaces so that GLX commands can get decoded and sent to the hardware rather than the sw renderer. It's in the pipeline for future development by the DRI folks, but if it were sponsored, it might

Re: [Dri-devel] question regarding savage driver

2003-08-10 Thread Alex Deucher
the code S3/VIA released was against xfree86 4.2.0. several people have built the source against 4.2.0. check tim roberts' savage mailing list archive for instructions (http://www.probo.com/mailman/listinfo/savage40 ). I don't think the initial driver drop enabled hw acceleration on savage

[Dri-devel] New radeon mergedfb and power management patches available

2003-08-09 Thread Alex Deucher
For those that are interested, I just wanted to mention that I've posted new versions of my radeon mergedfb patch and my radeon powermanagement patch. Please see bugzilla for more details. Binaries and diffs are available on my website (listed on bugzilla). Mergedfb:

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon hardware ROM

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
There was a discussion about posting multiple radeon cards on the devel and xfree86 MLs just before 4.3.0 was released (feb 2003). Marc and Hui and several others were involved. If you can find the thread, it might help you out. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10430550602r=1w=2

Re: [Dri-devel] HW accel render to a texture in shared memory?

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
You might also be able to use Xv and just take snapshots of your radeon desktop and send them to the Xv adapter on the card driving the panel. much like how a tv cards sends video data to the Xv adapter using offscreen images. There might be limitations on bandwidth and the size of the overlay

[Dri-devel] DRI-Xfree86 tree merge?

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
Is a tree merged planned anytime soon? The 2D driver is getting substantially different from the old one in the DRI tree. There are A LOT of fixes in the xfree tree that many users of newer cards need to have xfree work at all. Plus, if we want to merge the IGP 3D support, that depends on the

Re: [Dri-devel] video memory requirements for dri

2003-08-20 Thread Alex Deucher
there is a driver option in your config file to choose how much ram you want to use for your adapter. I don't remember what it is off hand. Alex --- Dimitris Zilaskos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am using i830-20030820-linux.tar.bz2 on redhat 9 , p4 system 512 ram intel

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: something changed in r200 driver?

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Deucher
Some of the Xv code in CVS got put into mi* so you may need a new 'XFree86' binary. Alex --- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:24, Felix Kühling wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:06:04 +0200 (CEST) Korosi Akos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been off for a

Re: [Dri-devel] SiS DRI

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Deucher
There are no sis docs available for any thing newer than the 6326 as far as I know (the 6326 docs were on the dri downloads page for a while). There is also a utah-glx driver for the 6326. Sis wrote the DRI driver for the 300 series, but I don't think they ever released databooks for it. They

Re: [Dri-devel] SiS DRI

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Deucher
there are docs for the 300 series on utah-glx, but they are 2D only it looks like: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1098release_id=77440 Alex --- Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As some of you have heard, I'm working on getting the SiS DRI working again. It's been

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-users] Re: something changed in r200 driver?

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Deucher
If memory serves, I believe radeon_probe.c gets compiled into ati_drv.o so you'll need a new ati_drv.o as well. Alex --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:12, Korosi Akos wrote: Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: The latest working snapshot is

Re: [Dri-devel] Existing OpenGL based window manager

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Deucher
I'd be interested in this project. I beleive there was a project a while back that did something like this using xnest. it was called transluxent and was kind of a hack. http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/ Also, speaking of pbuffers, Alan Cox mentioned that he a received a code

[Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:31, Alex Deucher wrote: On a related note, I've been thinking about alternative ways to implement mergedfb on radeon hardware. what if instead of creating a single framebuffer with two viewports, we stuck with the old

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference is that the 2D engine is only used by the X server, whereas the 3D engine is used by every 3D client, and the 3D driver still assumes that the locations of the front

[Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-users] Re: something changed in r200

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
you only need to update ati_drv.o if you make changes to radeon.h or (I think) radeon_probe.h/c Alex --- Korosi Akos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Finally!!! It works Thanks to everyone who helped with this work! Expecially to Felix! I have just one more question: do I need

Re: [Dri-devel] S3 Savage Driver status

2003-08-30 Thread Alex Deucher
XvMC is an extension for Xvideo that does things like motion compensation and iDCT in hardware. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with your problem. Also I'm not sure if the savage mx/ix cards even have hw motion comp, etc. that might have been added in the savage4 and 2000 cores.

Re: [Dri-devel] Faster transfer to video memory

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 13:06, Jouni Tulkki wrote: Is there a way to make moving images and textures to video memory faster? Currently I'm using Radeon 9500 Pro and AGP 8x. Curious, how do use AGP without the DRI being enabled? :) (And how 8x

[Dri-devel] 2 questions about radeon driver

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Deucher
I have two questions for you about the radeon driver. the first relates to the CP and accel. I'm attempting to convert the Xv code to use the CP. how do you check to find out if the driver is using CP or MMIO accel? I considered using info-directRenderingEnabled, but as far as I can see the

Re: [Dri-devel] svideo output scrambled

2003-09-01 Thread Alex Deucher
the open source radeon Xfree drivers do not support tv out yet. You might check with the GATOS people (http://gatos.sf.net). it works in the console because the BIOS is driving the outputs rather than the driver. Alex --- Chris Ison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way to

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-01 Thread Alex Deucher
Linus, Some dell OEM radeon cards offered Dual DVI ports and I believe there are some other oems (tyan?) that will be offering Dual DVI cards. the radeon 9000s and newer only have one tdms trandsmitter built in, but an additional external one can be added on to drive the second DVI port. for

Re: [Dri-devel] Xv on i830 broken?

2003-09-02 Thread Alex Deucher
I think it worked in the past, but I think something got broken recently. I've seen several reports of it being broken recently on the xfree MLs. there are some bugs for it on xfree bugzilla. Alex --- Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Xv output supposed to work on i830-based

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-09-06 Thread Alex Deucher
An card from the 300 series sis cards should work: 300, 305, 540, 630/S/ST, 730 Alex --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone wants to test, [...] Which video card would you recommend for trying ? I'd see if I can get one, Martin. --

[Dri-devel] Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-03 Thread Alex Deucher
This is probably better asked on dri-devel (cc:ed). --- Cheshire Cat Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am investigating supporting DRI and OpenGL for the Silicon Motion driver. I'm new to both of those, so some of these may be newbie sounding questions. 1) I have the OpenGL code from the

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [Dri-devel] Rage128 and Radeon patches

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) access ROM directly instead of relying on copy in low RAM. This allows multiple cards. Required MPP_TB_CONFIG fix in driver. Is this patch necessary for xfree86? It may address some of the issues in the email threads I

[Dri-devel] xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
Dualhead... Right now there is dualhead support for the following cards in xfree86: radeon matrox sis via chips 3dlabs (Sven mentioned that he had this quasi-working on the newer cards, although I don't know the state of his driver) The following cards have hw dualhead support, but no driver

Re: [Dri-devel] Rage128 and Radeon patches

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully these is the last versions. They implement: 1) add every know PCI ID 2) access ROM directly instead of relying on copy in low RAM. This allows multiple cards. Required MPP_TB_CONFIG fix in driver. Is this patch necessary for xfree86? It may

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Deucher
) for a while with 630s as well. you can still find 300/305 PCI/AGP cards on some websites usually labeled as sis 305 32mb or similar. Alex --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone wants to test

Re: [Dri-devel] Weekly IRC meeting - 3dlabs and savage

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Deucher
from the log: idr To do that we're going to port the *OLD* 500TX driver to DRI. :) anholt 500tx is a what? idr anholt: The GLINT before the MX. ... idr anholt: It should be *much* faster. The Delta does all the geometry setup. This is the mode the current gamma driver uses. anholt hmm idr Part

Re: [Dri-devel] Weekly IRC meeting - 3dlabs and savage

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Deucher
The 2D driver supports all savage chips, but the 3D driver seems to only support the Prosavage and Twister (savage4 core) integrated chips: from savage_driver.c: if ((psav-Chipset == S3_TWISTER) || (psav-Chipset == S3_PROSAVAGE)) { /* Setup DRI after visuals have been

Re: [Dri-devel] Weekly IRC meeting - 3dlabs and savage

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm aware of Sven's work, and I have been in contact with him. I haven't persued getting docs form 3dlabs yet, but I may do so in the future. IBM's lawyers are *VERY* picky, so getting docs under NDA for use in open-source projects is *VERY*

[Dri-devel] dri.freedesktop.org webcvs view?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Deucher
Is there a web based CVS viewer on freedesktop.org like there is on xfree86 or sourceforge? I personally find it useful when I don't have access to my PC. it's also nice for reference. Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Keith Whitwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: looks like the post size limit ate my first attempt to post this. Anyway, I was finally able to access DRI cvs (from dri.freedesktop.org), so I pulled the latest tree and created a radeon mergedfb patch against it. I've

[Dri-devel] adding sis 6326 support to the sis DRI

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
Eric, Now that you are finishing up the sis 300 series DRI port, how hard would it be to add support for the 6326? there were databooks for it flaoting around and there was a utah-glx driver as well. It's a pretty basic 3D engine; it's it similar to the 300 series, it might be trivial to add

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
Factoring it out is not a problem. the question is what to do with it when I pull it out. create an external external libray like libXMergedFB.so or something like that? what's the preferred method? any existing examples I can look at? Alex --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a

Re: [Dri-devel] adding sis 6326 support to the sis DRI

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: basic 3D engine; it's it similar to the 300 series, it might be trivial to add support, but then again, I'm not too familiar with sis hardware internals. I actually took a brief look. The 6326 is a simple PIO engine that needs triangles fed it

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Deucher
at the moment I guess I'm inclined to agree. thoughts? Alex --- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:46, Alex Deucher wrote: It seems like a lot of cards have this type of capability and lots of drivers are doing this somewhat independently of one another

RE: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] radeon mergedfb support for DRI CVS

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Deucher
How about a mergedfb branch if not the trunk? I'm pretty good about keeping things up to date. I'm not yet an expert with CVS, but it won't take long ;) Alex --- Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you would wonder how other developers could enjoy having a look on your updates at the

Re: [Dri-devel] good news for savage users or not ???

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Deucher
S3/VIA released the source to their 2D/3D/XvMC driver that was based on xfree86 4.2.0. it has not yet been ported to 4.3.0. if you don't mind using 4.2.0, you can find instructions on how to build and install their driver here: http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2003-July/41.html

Re: [Dri-devel] RMrgeFB:The patch vs DRICVS dosen't break things too bad, maby not at all.

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Deucher
Are you sure have mergedfb set up correctly? 3D should work on both heads, not just one. check the man page for all the mergedfb options: http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/final/radeon.4.html Are you using pageflipping? If so, turn it off. it has some issues in certain modes

[Dri-devel] XGI?

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Deucher
Is anyone on either of these lists familiar with XGI? It seems to be a new GPU manufacturer consisting of a merger of Trident and the SiS graphics division. here's their website: http://www.xgitech.com/index.htm They have some interesting products products (dual GPU solution). Some of their

RE: [Dri-devel] XGI?

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Deucher
the linux driver, which is release with Linux OS, for almost all their own chips. -Original Message- From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:30 PM To: Thomas Winischhofer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alex Deucher; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

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