On 15 Aug 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >MAH> Updating the entire XFree86 src.rpm to CVS however is >MAH> non-trivial. > >As I found out. For example, the 4.2.0 RPM builds a separate driver >for the i830 while CVS builds everything into the 810 driver. I haven't built CVS yet, just used some patches from it (I reverted the PCI domains code and other things) in rawhide. I haven't seen a separate i830 driver yet personally though unless that is a change that occured recently. >MAH> Only if the driver still retains compatibility at the source >MAH> level with the existing X server. Most XFree86 CVS driver code >MAH> currently uses the new PCI domains code, and would thus be >MAH> incompatible with 4.2.0. > >I found that out as well. However, I did try doing a bulk copy of >everything in xc/exports along with the XFree binary and, lo and >behold, it works. Sort of; I still need an external program to tweak >a bit in the graphics controller before X will start. Oh, and I need >the absolute latest Rawhide kernel as well because the AGP support >changed. > >Hopefully the released code will catch up with this hardware soon. Rawhide XFree86 contains backported parts of the CVS i810 driver. Until XFree86 4.3.0 is released officially, and we do a full bugfix/stabilization cycle, things will have to wait. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
