XFree86 4.3.0-56 EPIA test results

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:

>I did some testing on the new via XFree86 driver, and it
>certainly works a lot better than the old one (which didn't work
>at all for me :-) )

Wonderful!

>For DRI I just patched 2.6.2-1.81 with 
>http://epia.kalf.org/gryle_patches/via-v4l-1.4a-drm.patch.gz
>(with use of floating point in ddmpeg.c fixed, there are two uses of *1.5 in 
>the code, which were trivially fixed :-). With
>http://www.uk.linux.org/~alan/via_dri.so that was enough to make glx and 
>tuxracer work (colors were somewhat off in the latter, tho...)

Good to hear.

>Will bugzilla once -57 (and the devel kernel with via dri
>support the existance of which was suggested a while back, but
>which is nowhere to be found), that hopefully should make the
>dust settle enough to a bug report to be useful at all :-)

-57 is now ready, and includes the via_dri.so module properly.  
Please test the 4.3.0-57 package out using the included via_drv.o 
2D driver, via_dri.so 3D driver, and ensuring you're not using 
3rd party bits, so the testing is clean.

Thanks for testing,
TTYL

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat