Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 07:29:58 -0400 From: "Coffin, Dexter" <idnopheq@comcast.net> To: Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4(-Servers) and Alpha 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <1024313399.6123.64.camel@roshomon.idnopheq.net> In-Reply-To: <1024299972.502.178.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> References: <200206122228.g5CMScZ4002070@quarter.csl.sri.com> <1023973696.6123.37.camel@roshomon.idnopheq.net> <1024299972.502.178.camel@anholt.dyndns.org>
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Hi, All! Eric, I think I sent you an email after being pointed to your DRI development page when 4.2 was released in ports, tho my memory is weak in that regard. I'm searching my email archives now The good news is that if I am indeed wrong you are a person to straighten the misunderstanding out. Please read in-line below for my references. On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 03:46, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 07:08, Coffin, Dexter wrote: > > Hi, All! > > > > XFree86-4.2 uses DRI for the ATI cards. DRI works on Alpha Linux (Red > > Hat and Debian) but not on FreeBSD. > > > > The FreeBSD DRI developers know this and will get to it when they can, > > IIRC. > > > > I'm running 4.1 with the old ATI drivers for my 16MB Rage Pro on a > 164LX > > just fine. > > What does the DRI have to do with that? The files he listed were the > DDX (2d) driver files. They include only a little code for the DRI, > which as far as I know shouldn't cause any problem with Alphas (The > piece of the DRI that's missing for them is the DRM). Or is there > something else? See ... http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=68553+0+archive/2002/freebsd-alpha/20020407.freebsd-alpha IIRC, this was a follow up to a post I made about my ATI card's driver in 4.2 when I had trouble compiling then using 4.2. Another thread I followed was http://gatos.sourceforge.net/livid-ati/2001-March/msg00013.html > > Also note that DRI support is not available for that chipset in XFree86 > releases anyway. According to http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/DRI3.html#5, DRI is available for Alpha with ATI Rage 128 chips. Indeed, I confirmed with another Alpha user running Debian w/ 4.2 and similar hardware to mine. > > -- > Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu> > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ > The long and the short of it is that I would love to go to 4.2 for all the enhancements. But if I have to throw my old 2MB DEC video card back in my box, it would all be for naught. Let me know how I could help. THX, Dex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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