From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <393BEF5D.30EFC6A8@relog.ch> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 20:20:13 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Reply-To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-apus-user@lists.sourceforge.net CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: New experimental X 4.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D60BC041AC2BC4916ED220AB" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D60BC041AC2BC4916ED220AB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey all The URL and filenames have changed a bit: http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/ This is 4.0b . Good news for the Permedia2 people: DGA support is here. It's not tested though... The other important thing is support for the latest PowerBooks in the r128 driver. Michel --------------D60BC041AC2BC4916ED220AB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="XFree86-srv-4.0-ppc.readme" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="XFree86-srv-4.0-ppc.readme" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit XFree86 4.0b server with Permedia2 hardware acceleration -------------------------------------------------------- Please read the accompanying readmes for every tarball before continuing. Contents -------- This contains all the necessary files to get an XFree86 4.0b server up and running. - The glint driver provides sophisticated hardware acceleration for Permedia2 graphics boards. - The r128 driver does the same for Rage128 boards (support for all Rage128 chips including the Rage Mobility M3 found in the latest PowerBooks) - I have also included the ati driver for the Mach family of ATI chips. *NOTE* This is untested on PPC and will probably crash and burn! That's why I haven't prepared a Driver Section for it in the XF86Config. - Finally, the fbdev driver enables everyone with a working framebuffer device to get the server running easily. However, it's not accelerated in any way. Installing ---------- First of all, make a copy of your XF86Config. Its format has changed since 3.3.x and an example will be installed with the server (/etc/X11/XF86Config). Please edit it to suit your system. Extract the tarball to your root directory. Apart from the XF86Config issue, it should be able to coexist with an existing X installation. (Check out the server's -xf86config commandline option!) The new server executable is /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, depending on your installation you'll have to make it suid root (chmod u+s). Read and edit the supplied XF86Config file! *Important note for users with PCI gfx cards* Apparently, you have to supply a BusID for the fbdev driver to work. Features -------- - Greatly enhanced hardware acceleration due to the new XAA (XFree Acceleration Architecture) - Hardware cursor - Modular design, single modules can be replaced without much hassle Changes since 4.0a: - DGA 2.0 support in the glint driver (untested)! Please report if it works. - Support for all Rage128 chips in the r128 driver - ati driver included (*UNTESTED*) - documentation (manpages and HTML) for the server, XF86Config and drivers Changes since 3.9.18: - contains experimental support for the Xv extension, try http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/mpeg2play.bz2 (don't forget the -b switch and maximizing the window :) Thanks to Michael Schimek for his code. - problems with signal 4 are fixed - new -libs- and -include- tarballs (not needed for normal usage) - the r128 driver is included again. Kostas Gewrgiou is an X developer working on r128/PowerMac support, contact him if it doesn't work. Changes since 3.9.17f: - I removed a few supposedly unused modules to make the tarballs smaller. If it complains about something missing, contact me - Fixed all known acceleration bugs - Fixed a bug which caused a crash (signal 11) with AfterStep's menu. If you experienced a sig 11 in another situation, this *might* be fixed as well... Known Problems -------------- - glint: 604e users apparently still have to enable Option "XAANoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill" in the XF86Config. I'm working on this and will provide an updated driver module once it's fixed. - r128: Wrong colors after switching away and back with some chips - fbdev: Some things are _very_ slow (Most notably the GNOME logout screen). If you want to help, send an xscope trace to me or Keith Packard For problem reports etc. contact me, *NOT* XFree86! This is in no way an official release! Have fun, Michel Dänzer --------------D60BC041AC2BC4916ED220AB-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/