Re: Suggestion for XFree86
Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
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I agree. It seems daunting at first, but once you get into it, it's not so bad at all (drivers anyway, i haven't looked at ther rest of X). BTW, for those new to Xfree development, the CALLMAP in the s3v directory is also helpful in conjunction with the DESIGN document. Now if I just had savage databooks... Alex http://www.botchco.com/alex/new-savage/html/ --- Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > I remember I started small (improving a driver as an afernoon > > project - the driver has long been finished the afternoon still > > isn't over yet) and worked my way up. > > The learning curve has been steep and it is even steeper today, > > but this cannot be the only reason as other projects have steep > > learning curves, too. > > The learning curve is not the problem, not with XFree 4.x. It took > me two days to learn enough to fix the cyrix driver, and a day > to learn to write input drivers. > > Its things like direct CVS access, preparedness for people to break > stuff, rolling regular releases that concern me. > > The technical problem for core drivers was solved in XFree 4.0 > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > [email protected] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/forum __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com