Re: [Savage40] Better Driver Out There (fwd)

this driver was written for xfree 4.2.x and mesa 3.x.  it needs
extensive work to be made to compile against 4.3.0 and mesa 4/5.x.  For
those interested in messing with it, you can download the savage-1_0_0
branch from DRI CVS.  Also for what it's worth, VIA/S3 also released a
full featured open source driver for the CLE266/Unichrome/castlerock. 
it has the same issues as the savage driver.
http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/CLE266.zip

Alex
 
--- "Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good news for Savage video hardware owners.
> 
> Before you ask....   Yes, I will be investigating the possibility 
> of adding this to 4.3.0 in rawhide, but no promises.  If it does 
> end up going in, it will require kernel modifications/updates 
> also for the DRI to work.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
> OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:32:34 -0700
> From: Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
> To: savage40 <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> List-Id: Savage XFree86 4.x driver <savage40.probo.com>
> Subject: [Savage40] Better Driver Out There
> 
> Well, folks, it appears that my Savage driver is now a LONG ways from
> the state 
> of the art.  I am no longer "da man".
> 
> Unbeknownst to me, VIA/S3 have been quietly bulking up their snapshot
> of the 
> Savage driver.  Recently, they were persuaded to release their driver
> to the 
> world in source form:
> 
>   http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip
> 
> I have not tried to compile this yet, but based on a quick perusal of
> the 
> source code, it looks like it:
> 
>  * Supports all of the Savage chips
>  * Supports video4linux for videoport/zoomvideo
>  * Supports the Chrontel TV part on ProSavageDDR motherboards
>  * Supports MPEG motion compensation acceleration (XvMC)
> and (drum roll, please):
>  * Supports DRI and OpenGL
> 
> They have made so many changes that it is almost impossible for me to
> determine 
> whether all of my recent fixes are in their code, but given the
> thoroughness I 
> see in other places, I suspect that they are.
> 
> So, if you have the inclination and ability to build from source, it
> would be 
> well worth your trouble to give this a try.  If you do build binaries
> for 
> either 4.2.0 or 4.3.0, let me know and I will announce it to this
> list.
> 
> --
> - Tim Roberts, [email protected]
>   Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> 
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