Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Puetz wrote: > (I don't know what kind of licenses you are bound by, if no say no). > Especially nice would be to rebuild Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s > debs from http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/4.0/ with > experimental mach64, but I'll ta

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Especially nice would be to rebuild Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > z.ch>'s debs from http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/ > 4.0/ with sory, not debs - not sure why I said that. Just meant to tar it up in the same structure. (well, debs would be co

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you compare > Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128 you'll find xfree 4.0 (with a couple of my > patches in Jack Howarth's RPMS) are over 200% faster then Xpmac. As > for mach64, a local build shows somewhat the same increase

Re: Xpmac (was: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences)

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> Is there a Debian potato compatible binary of Xpmac out there > somewhere? Well, on my PB3400, I first used Xpmac.rev10, which I got from Kevin Hendricks site (http://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/rage128_usb/) (which is not responding for me right at the moment) but acceleration on ct6555x is broken

Xpmac (was: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences)

2000-05-12 Thread Ted Whalen
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev > > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you compare > > Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128... > > How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack > up against Xpmac? Is there a Debian potat

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack up > against Xpmac? I have no clue, as I don't own any chips hardware. Stock 4.0 won't work on PPC, but as I said a few messages ago in this thread, I'll try and hack in ppc s

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> > Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev > Actually, Xpmac is very slow compared to XFree 4.0. If you > compare Xpmac vs. XFree86 4.0 r128... How does XFree86 4.0 on the ct6555x chipset (aka PB2400/3400) stack up against Xpmac? -raf

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 > > chipsets. the ATI driver in the stock 4.0 source does not work on > > ppc, I have added PPC support and will get it into 4.01 if i get some > > more fre

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 > chipsets. the ATI driver in the stock 4.0 source does not work on > ppc, I have added PPC support and will get it into 4.01 if i get some > more free time soon. Xpmac is so much faster than XF68_FBDev

Re: compile problem with current bk tree (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > gcc-2.9.1.66 can no longer compile the latest kernels. Anybody who wants > > > to > > > create a deb for 2.95.2? > > > > ??? > > > > I

Re: [linux-fbdev] 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > Applied to clgenfb, with some slight updates. Should be in > > > 2.3.99-pre7-pre9 or so.. > > > > Thanks very much! > > > > Is there anything I can do to help fix clgenfb for MacPicasso? Any > > printks I can stick

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Chris Brown
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same > > > > > problems > > > > > as 2.2. > > > > > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old ne

Re: compile problem with current bk tree (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:14:45PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > gcc-2.9.1.66 can no longer compile the latest kernels. Anybody who wants > > > to > > > create a deb for 2.95.2? > > > > ??? > > > > I

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Ani Joshi
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Really? I seem to be the only one having trouble with accel Xfb-atyfb in 3.3, > and thought that the 4.0 fb backend does not yet have accel... > No, everyone should *not* use 4.0 yet, at least those with Mach64 chipsets. the ATI driver in the st

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > > > as 2.2. > > > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > > > > (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, > > suc

Re: compile problem with current bk tree (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > gcc-2.9.1.66 can no longer compile the latest kernels. Anybody who wants to > > create a deb for 2.95.2? > > ??? > > I have installed the latest gcc, and it's 2.95.2-x . Are you using potato? I'm using woody.

Re: compile problem with current bk tree (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > gcc-2.9.1.66 can no longer compile the latest kernels. Anybody who wants to > create a deb for 2.95.2? ??? I have installed the latest gcc, and it's 2.95.2-x . Michel -- Me? A skeptic? Can you prove it? __

Re: compile problem with current bk tree (fwd)

2000-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
gcc-2.9.1.66 can no longer compile the latest kernels. Anybody who wants to create a deb for 2.95.2? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven - Sony Software Development Center Europe (SDCE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: 2.3.99pre7-8 experiences

2000-05-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > >* atyfb still doesn't support Xfb with accels properly, same problems > > > as 2.2. > > > > What are they? (Sorry if this is old news :) > > (Sorry, I forgot only fbdev list members have seen this.) Minor problems, > such as: expose events don't lead to prop

Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm no expert, but I thought glibc2.1 was supposed to be backward > compatible with glibc2.0. I have had problems when I have upgraded my > compiler from from 2.7.2 to gcc-2.95.x. The compiler is so good that > it optimizes out symbols that the old libraries expect to re