On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a strange memory corruption problem. > > I use a Geode LX based system running mostly Debian Lenny on kernel > 2.6.31.4. [...] > I have tried the following things without success: > - updating geode video driver to 2.11.6 (this version needed more video > memory, 32MB instead of 8MB, and it segfaultet when not providing EDID > information, but otherwise no difference)
Thanks for reporting this, Michael. Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that Geode users will have to get used to the lesser performances of the VESA driver, because nobody has been willing to put any real effort towards properly maintaining xf86-video-geode, as a result of which its usability has slowly diminished e.g. corrupted handling of pixmaps, double of the previous memory consumption, broken support on GX2 hardware, long gone GX1 and SC hardware support, etc. to the point that it's no longer usable even on fairly recent LX hardware. Back when AMD had their own paid staff maintaining this driver, things worked extremely well, but after nearly the whole embedded department was laid off, including Jordan Cruise, who had contributed most of the xf86-video-geode code, this driver has been falling into rapid decay. Initially, the idea was for myself to pick up where Jordan left and act as the release manager, with contributions from Chris Ball and Mart Raudsepp to keep the code at least remotely in sync with X server core releases. I'm afraid to report that this strategy has failed, now that the OLPC and Artec have moved on to other hardware platforms. These days, we only get occasional maintenance script updates by Gaetan Nadon and minor GX2 fixes by Otavio Salvador. This is clearly not enough to keep this driver remotely usable so, unless we get new contributors to jump in and help us maintain this xf86-video-geode, I'm gonna have to inform the X.org development team that our driver is hereby deprecated and should no longer ship with any distribution. Best Regards, Martin-Éric _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
