Gerhart, Bjoern wrote: Hi,
>> But >> some of the features in that driver include randr 1.2 (with >> multihead), > > Before we had siliconmotion driver release 1.4.9, we could not operate an > SM712 chip as secondary graphics adapter, while the onboard chipset (in our > case driven by i810) provided the primary graphics adapter. Release 1.4.9 > supported this kind of multi head. But maybe this improvement has flown into > randr 1.2? I want to believe that this should be functional on the current driver, or require some very basic patch to enable (but I only have access to a sample mips computer with a smi 502...). > There was another strange behaviour which was removed with our 1.4.9 driver. > The Video BIOS identification string was shown up twice each time > initializing X (using the SM712 chip). > > >> They are already in version 2.2.8, while we are on version 1.6.1 :-) > > Ah, okay I see that the 1.4.9 driver is quite old in the meantime *smile* > However, with Xorg 7.1 (as distributed with CentOS 5), I had the same issues > with the siliconmotion driver concerning the SM712 chip described above. Did you try with a checkout of the current freedesktop driver? It would be good to know if there aren't any regressions. But from what I could check, when comparing with sources in 1.4.9, all code checking if is a primary card is already in the freedesktop driver, so, if it doesn't work, it may also be a regression in the pci/vbe code in Xorg. >> If you can send me the tarball it should be easier to handle, then >> real diffs. As there may exist useful features that were removed... > > Okay, I appended the tgz of our working siliconmotion driver sources 1.4.9 to > this email (compilable against XFree 4.3). Thanks. I looked at it, but I think everything it provides is already available in the current freedesktop driver in functional terms. But it is good to look at an older version to have a better idea of how the code evolved :-) > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > Regards > Björn Paulo _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
