RE: XVideo support for RedHat 7.2 available

Excellent!  I've been trying to get my sh*t together and do the same thing
(the RFE).  Thanks for doing this!

-- 
Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diego SANTA CRUZ [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Neomagic] XVideo support for RedHat 7.2 available
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> After gaining enough courage I re-compiled RedHat's XFree-4.2.0 RPMs
> with the new XVideo support for the neomagic driver on my old little
> laptop :-) Thanks to all those that did the hard work implementing the
> functionality!
> 
> You can find the RH-7.2 RPMs, source RPM, patch and binary driver at
> http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/linux
> 
> The RPM is a patched version of XFree86-4.2.0-6.62 (from RawHide). The
> patch just changes the neomagic driver to the one in the XFree86 CVS
> (excluding the multiple domains stuff in neo_bank.c).
> 
> If you already have a version of XFree86 4.2.0 installed you can
> probably just replace the neomagic driver with the new one (also
> available on the web page above).
> 
> More instructions are available on the web page above.
> 
> So far I have used it successfully, although I haven't had 
> much time to
> test it. It would be good to know if anyone encounters any problems.
> 
> I also submitted and RFE in RedHat's bugzilla along with the 
> patch (bug
> #63609): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63609 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Diego
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