Derrik Pates wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mac Cody wrote: > > > Interesting. :-\ I would have thought that interlace support > > would be in place since XFree86 is at version 4.1.0 already > > and support was there in XFree86 3.3.6. Anywhere I could find > > out whether that is the case or not (short of investigating the > > sources)? If interlace support is missing, I guess I'll have > > to fall back to XFree 3.3.6 for now [sigh!]. > > Well, XFree86 underwent some serious reworking with the debut of the 4.x > line - moving away from monolithic X servers, and moving towards modules > for everything, with one smaller base server. Not a lot of attention had > initially been paid to moving the old-style 3.x drivers for many old > boards (pre-ViRGE S3 boards, older Cirrus and Trident boards had also > fallen victim to this), as much of the redesign was intended to allow > support for more-advanced features like the XVideo and DRI subsystems. > Only recently have those really old drivers been ported forward to the new > modular architecture.
Yeah. I can understand and appreciate that. Not being a contributor to the XFree86 development effort myself, I can only imagine the level of effort required to support all of the many video cards (both old and new) that are out there. > So you may need to stay with 3.3.x for now, or if you're up to it, try > hacking in interlaced-mode support. That's about all you can do, until > someone eventually gets the drivers for the older boards fully ported up. I'm afraid that is what I may have to do. In fact I'm already preparing to do so (pulling the necessary .tgz files off the Slackware 7.1 CDROM). Tis a pity. XFree86 4.1.0 appears to be faster on my cards than 3.3.6. Mac _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
