On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:59:42PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:44:50PM +0000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > Just a note. > > > > Was X version 4 supposed to be that magic next step, > > where companies like ATI and Matrox could make > > their own drivers? Was X version 4 supposed to have > > Yes, but only NVIDIA is doing it, both matrox and ATI are contributing the > code back to XFree86, well as much as they can anyway. > > > a mechanism for which these drivers could be addedd > > modularly with no need to hack the main code? Was > > Well, yes, but the main support code is still changing and evolving. > > I guess that it is possible to have proprietary driver that work well with XF > 4.0.2 for example, like the nvidia drivers. Don't know if they have ppc > versions of them though. > > > that one of the reasons why we could not have a free > > version of X Version 4? If so, why is that we are > > Not anyone aggreed with that philosophy though, and we stiull have a free > version of XFree86 4. > > > now having this problem in running an ATI driver? > > well, i guess mainly it is because not enough of the XFree86 developpers are > running on ppc, care to join ?
Aside from that, i think the XFree86 big guys are nto at all convinced that fbdev is a good thing. Don't know upto what point this is related to the problems you are speaking about. Also notice, the Appian Jeronimo 2000 is also a nice powermac board, and it has a working driver (written by me, sponsored by appian, wors also on formacs permedia3 boards, no 3D yet though but Xv support is underway). Friendly, Sven Luther
