There is a server, called Xpmac, that is actually acelerated for ATIcards, and is not on debian, is damm much faster than the frame buffer
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:03:32 Ivo KRAB wrote: > Sven Luther replied: > >> Could you PLEASE build and package all the servers, not just the FBdev one? > >> The fbdev is not accellerated for my Powerbook's Chips 65550, but the SVGA > >> one is supposed to be. > > > >No, i will not, i have other things to do. If you provide me with a patch, > >then i could do it. Anyway, i don't think the SVGA Xfree server will even > >compile on ppc, but then i may be wrong. > > Don't know about that, but I don't see why it shouldn't. The way I see it, > normally everything gets built by default, so is it a lot more work to > package also the other server binaries? > > >If you have the 65550 specs, you could even add fbdev accel for it, taking as > >model the mach64 and pm2 stuff (in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree68/maxh64|pm2 > >i > >guess). > > Sorry I'm not enough of a programmer for that yet, and certainly don't have > the time right now to dive into such an adventure, soon to be outdated by > Xfree 4.0 anyway. I'll just wait, thank you. > > >> On another tack there, I've downloaded and built the 3.9.17 source. It's > >> not working for me yet, but when (if) it will, how do I go about packaging > >> and uploading it? Is there a HOWTO? > > > >Xfree 3.9.17 is not actually working for powerpc. you could give 3.9.15 a try > > [...] what problem did you experiment with 3.9.17 ? > >please forward your problem to the xfree mailing list, so it get fixed. (the > >address is devel@XFree86.Org) Make sure to provide lots of info about your > >problem. > > I finally got the whole thing to compile, but then at startup the chips > drivermodule loads a vga module and tries to load an "int10" module, which > has apparently something to do with pc bioses, totally inappropriate for > mac I guess, over which it barfs. I'll post a detailed report to the list. > I guess that means there is no moderation? I did not see a bugreport > possibility for the snapshots through the normal webforms. > > Ivo > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
