* From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> * Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:11:20 -0300 > Contact him directly, it is probably the only way.
For anyone else interested in the r128 this is Connor's reply. > ... radeon driver as of 2005 had a lot of obsolete code for mode > validation. I assume this code is still in r128. At some time between > 2005 and 2012 when UMS was dropped, radeon got switched over to a > different type of UMS that used functions in the X server that are more > correct. Fixing this sounds like quite a project. > ... > I'm pretty sure the problem has been solved for UMS and KMS. It's just > that the KMS solution in the current radeon driver wouldn't be > applicable to r128 unless we also edit the r128 kernel module to support > KMS (something I hope to do eventually). Radeon has seen a progression > from "old UMS code" -> "new UMS code" -> KMS while r128 is still stuck > with old UMS code. Getting it to use new UMS code seems like the more > realistic thing to do. And if I learn a decent amount of stuff from that > effort, I might know enough to try KMS after. So in some aspects, r128 is significantly outdated; there is plenty of work for anyone interested. Meanwhile a working VESA driver could be better than broken other driver. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057605.60987.33859@heaviside.invalid
