Em Qua, 2003-10-22 às 13:48, Alex Deucher escreveu: Hi Alex, > reviewers and even users to a certain degree is their tendency to blame > developers. If you read a story about linux in PC Magazine or on (...) > blame hardware vendors. The fact is, there aren't that many developers > working on opensource drivers. Most do it in their spare time. Sorry if it looked like I'm blaming developers. I am aware of the difficulties of developing a device driver just reverse-engineering it. Its not easy doing this even when you have the tech specs and is working full time on it. > So, if you want good support in linux, stick with hardware venders that > help out opensource developers. Developers are more inclined to work > on projects with receptive venders. That's why ati hardware is so > well supported. If I could afford buying ANY video board, I wouldn't have a onboard via kle266 one ;-) > If you want to use S3/VIA's savage driver, you'll have to use xfree86 > 4.2 for the time being. Unfortuntely developers just don't have enough > spare time or lack the hardware to port the driver in a short amount of > time. Is it possible to turn version down? Say in redhat 9, for instance. > > or even hoping that he took the via driver and fixed up himself :-) > > that's not the case, but it indicates a driver for redhat 7.3 and 8. > > Nothing for redhat 9 yet, in fact, it doesn't even compile. > The "via" driver and the savage driver are for different hardware. the > xfree86 "via" driver is for the CLE266 integrated video hardware from > VIA. the code for that driver was also released by via for xfree86 > 4.2. Alan Cox and several others cleaned up the 2D driver for > inclusion in xfree86 cvs. Alan also started porting the via 3D code to > mesa 5.x, but never got it finished. it now resides on a branch in > cvs. > The savage driver that S3/VIA released is also based on Tim's code but > also needs to be ported to mesa 5.x. it too is in a branch in DRI CVS. Well, I don't know which one I must use then. My video board is a ProSavageDDR, which is very common in entry-level cheap motherboards. It behaves preety good with Tim's driver, except for the fact it is SOOOO slow, and is always on 16-bit color depth, no matter what you set it to. -- []s Alexandre Ganso BIZ vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
