> - The cyrix driver as is in the xfree86 CVS does > not work on National's current Centaurus II > development board (GX1+5530). (Presumably it works > on older chipsets, I don't know enough to speak > to that).
It doesnt work on anything as far as I can tell. Incomplete code. > - Alan's version of the cyrix driver, without > the minor patches I made, does not work on the > 5530. With the patches it is usable. Works on some - seems to be VSA/BIOS dependant 8(. Your fixes are in the new release I put up today > the patches addresses this). It is not perfect, > I cannot "cleanly" reset back to text mode (the > system remains up, but the video becomes garbled). Curious - do you know what BIOS you have and if its VSA1/VSA2 ? > Although the "geode" driver is "the wave of the > future" on the 5530, presumably the "cyrix" driver > should be maintained, if this is low cost, so as > not to "lock up" if used? Also, the cyrix driver > may be a good deal smaller. I plan to maintain it, improve the 5520 support and also teach it to do "BIOSfree" setup. On older boxes the VSA is so fragile being able to bash the chips directly instead of via software faked vga extensions is a must. I'll keep 5530 working but won't now have to worry about adding all the stuff like Xv to it. PS: there's some cool kernel bits heading into the tree soon I hope that get many things between 15-30% speedups. Alan _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
