On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:40 am, Egbert Eich wrote: > Andy Goth writes: > > From 4.3.0's README.chips, "This driver must be considered work in > > progress, and those users wanting stability are encouraged to use the > > older XFree86 3.3.x versions." > > Thanks Andy, this is a pretty lame suggestion. A lot of work has > been invested since these lines were included in the README to > make this driver more stable. Unfortunately the README gets updated > less frequently than the driver therefore this was overlooked. > Your comments belittle those who have worked hard to make this > driver more stable.
Sorry, I only read the README and man page. I did an ls on the driver directory, but only for the purpose of hunting down the README/ChangeLog, which is/are of course elsewhere. I should have researched more and said less. I meant no insult. I even tried (lamely) to make a compliment... > > In the past I got 3.3.x "chips" working with a ct65554, but that's a > > different "engine", so my experience might not be helpful. > > Which also works with 4.3. > I admit that I have not tested the Chips driver on the 6554x > generation lately, mainly because my only test system is a > laptop and building the current version of X on this laptop > is no fun. > Unfortunately Code built on a current system isn't compatible > with the libc on the ancient installation that runs on this > box. Installing a current Linux on this box is out of the > question since the required resources are not available on it. > Despite this I've dug out the old machine and I'm currently > building XFree86 on it over nfs. I have the same problem with my network; each host has a different CPU. I'll have to see about using nfs to build for the weaker machines---last time I tried (long ago), I got very frequent "stale file handle" errors, so it was easier and faster to do tar|nc/chroot/rsync instead. I'd test as well, but the laptop in question has been in the trash for quite some time now. Those things have a hard life! At least I managed to save the hard disk... it's kind of funny to see a 2 1/2" drive in a half-height bay. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
