Re: the removal of Packard

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > It still doesnt work in 4.3 (With GMX2000) and the 2D broke as well with
> > 
> > Why still doesn't work ? Nobody is really working on it, so it can only
> > become more broken as time pass. I know of two (non x developper) who
> > are interrested in gamma + pm3 support, but they are no coders. I have
> > been trying to push them to try, but without much sucess so far.
> 
> Actually its a lot less broken in 4.3 than 4.2, it still doesn't work
> but it actually looks like it should now. One problem is that 1 v 2 
> renderer setup.

Mmm, yes. Alan did some job, but i also don't think it is high priority
for him. 

> > > the PCI Delta based card I have.
> > 
> > What did broke in the 2D driver ? It did work with 4.2.1, right, so it
> 
> Hangs the box when you start X

Is it a delta + rasterizer kind of card right ? Does it work if you
disable acceleration ? Or better yet, do you have a way of knowing when
it hangs (i usually mount /var synchronized, but maybe it would be
better to run it trough gdb from another box or something such) maybe
enabling the DEBUG macro would help here.

> > > I've been trying to track down why the 3D hangs the card the moment it
> > > starts up but not got anywhere yet
> > 
> > Do you have any hint ? I would vote for broken drm kernel module. You
> 
> The moment a client starts it seems we load the chips with something that
> gives them indigestion. Its fine until a 3d drive starts up and it looks
> like its the 3d startup thats doing it.

Mmm, could you checkout the tdlabs-0-0-1-branch (it is a bit old, from
november or such) and see if the small modification i did helps you
there, it included help on synchronizing one or both rasterizer.

It can be either the context saving/restoring code, the drm module or
the actual 3D accel code.

BTW, does it also lookup when you launch just glxinfo ?

That said, we can continue in private mail, if you want.

> I've been rather too busy to dig deeply recently.

Same here, and not being able to use the card anymore doesn't help.

Friendly,

Sven Luther