This driver and the CLE266 driver were released by VIA do to the great work by Alan Cox and Redhat. S3 developed the driver in house for IHVs and did not until just recently provide the source code. It was developed for 4.2.0/mesa-3.x and as such will only build on a 4.2.0 source tree. There is work being done by the DRI developers to port this code to 4.3.0 and Mesa 4/5.x. the priliminary code is available on a branch in the DRI CVS tree, however, it does not yet work. it is very much a work in progress. if you want to try out the code you will need to build against 4.2.0 for right now, or help port it to the newer xfree releases. Alex --- Simon Clift <ssclift@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I noticed this note on Tim Roberts' web page for S3/Savage > drivers for XFree86 (it is his driver currently in the > Redhat 9.0 distribution) dated yesterday: > > http://probo.probo.com/pipermail/savage40/2003-July/000038.html > > The note points to a VIA/S3 driver for all Savage chipsets > > http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip > > that is supposed to be from VIA/S3 themselves. He seems to > think it contains all of his patches, and to quote his note > 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 > * Supports DRI and OpenGL" > > (It's not on that VIA/S3 appears not to have kept him in the > loop on the development... anyhow...) > > Google and a quick read through this mailing list didn't > turn up any other references to these new drivers. Also, I > noted that the current XFree86 package 4.3.0-15 on Rawhide > still uses the 1.1.27t version of Tim Roberts driver. So in > deep ignorance of the XFree86 source code, imake and other > essentials and packages I dived in to see if I could get it > to work. > > To make a long story short, the driver seems to want XFree > 4.2.0, not 4.3.0 and as much as I hacked away at it, I > couldn't get the darn thing to compile. I just don't know > enough about the XFree source code to be useful, so I have > leave it to the experts. Sorry, I gave it a shot. > > Anyhow, it would be great to see 3D support for ProSavage in > a release of XFree86! > > Best regards > --- Simon > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
