Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement]

2001-06-05 Thread R C
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:09:43PM -0700, Digital Z-Man wrote: > > > > Good point. And by keeping it internal like that, it concentrates the > knowledge > base in a small area. I don't mean to offend, but the same group takes > away the > most intellectual knowhow from making these drivers.

Re: [Dri-devel] Couldn't SuSE Labs or RedHat hire Gareth Hughes then?

2001-06-05 Thread Digital Z-Man
I know a really cool company in San Diego that could use his talents ;-) But I'm sure he doesn't need our help to find a job ;-) L8r, Ice. Dieter Nützel wrote: > > My association with VA Linux Systems came to and end last week. Many of > > you will not know that I was never actually an employ

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Digital Z-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > > > > >c) There are limited projects - cards are usually not supported because of > > >an nVidia-like situation or have a well known "guru" doing the coding. No > > >nice easy intros to coding drivers. > > > > The DESIGN doc

[Fwd: Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement]

2001-06-05 Thread Digital Z-Man
Good point. And by keeping it internal like that, it concentrates the knowledge base in a small area. I don't mean to offend, but the same group takes away the most intellectual knowhow from making these drivers. It doesn't really help those that are on the outside looking in, and want to h

[Dri-devel] Couldn't SuSE Labs or RedHat hire Gareth Hughes then?

2001-06-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
> My association with VA Linux Systems came to and end last week. Many of > you will not know that I was never actually an employee of Precision > Insight or VA. I started at PI as a contractor, with the expectation > that once US work visa issues were resolved I'd relocate from Australia > and

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Digital Z-Man
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > >c) There are limited projects - cards are usually not supported because of > >an nVidia-like situation or have a well known "guru" doing the coding. No > >nice easy intros to coding drivers. > > The DESIGN document is pretty much a good start. If one can get it. I

[Dri-devel] Recurring lockup in q3demo with tdfx

2001-06-05 Thread Steven Walter
Occasinally, when exiting q3demo or changing video modes, X will hang I haven't seen any particular pattern to when this happens, but when it does happen, the mouse cursor is shown in the far upper left corner, and both the pointer and crosshair are present. X doesn't respond, but SysRq does. T

[Dri-devel] Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: mesa assuming glibc 2.2? (Cannot compile4.

2001-06-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2001 04:55 schrieb Dieter Nützel: > It would be more complicated soon as more and more people start using the > new Athlon 4/MP / Duron mobile 'cause they support 3DNow! Professional > (full Intel SSE). The configure script (the user?) have to decide which one > to use (3DNow!

[Dri-devel] RE: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: mesa assuming glibc 2.2? (Cannot compile4.

2001-06-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
It would be more complicated soon as more and more people start using the new Athlon 4/MP / Duron mobile 'cause they support 3DNow! Professional (full Intel SSE). The configure script (the user?) have to decide which one to use (3DNow!/3DNow! enhanced or SSE). Gareth which perform better on Ath

Re: [Dri-devel] mesa-3.5-branch: The SPARC stuff

2001-06-05 Thread David S. Miller
Dieter N=FCtzel writes: > one (?) file is missing in Mesa-3.5: >=20 > make[5]: *** No rule to make target `/opt/Mesa/src/SPARC/misc.S', ne= eded by=20 > `misc.S'. Stop. I just double checked and I did commit it to the CVS repository. Maybe anoncvs takes some extra time to get the new file.

[Dri-devel] Re: Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Will Newton wrote: >> In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is >> submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open >> source community"... > >Probably because: > >a) XFree86 is a big horrible beast (esp. if you're using a dial-up

[Dri-devel] mesa-3.5-branch: The SPARC stuff

2001-06-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Brian, one (?) file is missing in Mesa-3.5: make[5]: *** No rule to make target `/opt/Mesa/src/SPARC/misc.S', needed by `misc.S'. Stop. Thanks, Dieter ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/li

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan Hand
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:28:49AM +1000, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Digital Z-Man wrote: > > > > Well, anyone who wants to, IMO. > > In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is > submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open > source community"... H

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Aaron Holtzman
It would seem that Keith Whitwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > It's slightly chicken and egg - without a strong external developer or two, > there was no impetus to take those discussions off the va/pi internal lists. > Precision Insight did after all hire most of the significant contributors to t

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Ian D Romanick
> > In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is > > submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open > > source community"... > > The fact that most of the interesting design discussions took place on closed > mailing lists didn't help a lot, I'm sure.

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Will Newton
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Gareth Hughes wrote: > In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is > submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open > source community"... Probably because: a) XFree86 is a big horrible beast (esp. if you're using a dial-up) b)

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Whitwell
Gareth Hughes wrote: > > Digital Z-Man wrote: > > > > Well, anyone who wants to, IMO. > > In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is > submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open > source community"... The fact that most of the interesting desi

[Dri-devel] Re: [Dri-patches] ATI XPERT 2000 (Rage 128 SM)

2001-06-05 Thread Gareth Hughes
Nick Floussov wrote: > > Please, add support for ATI XPERT 2000 (Rage 128 SM): vendor 1002, device > 0x534D. Why don't you generate a patch that does this? That way, applying it is trivial :-) The file you're after is xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h in case you're wondering

Re: [Dri-devel] Announcement

2001-06-05 Thread Gareth Hughes
Digital Z-Man wrote: > > Well, anyone who wants to, IMO. In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open source community"... -- Gareth ___ Dri-devel mailing li

[Dri-devel] re: contest confirmation.

2001-06-05 Thread achandoke
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