<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:12:37 Dave Airlie wrote: > On 8/29/07, Ritesh Sood <riteshsood@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, the matrox driver (mtx_drv.so )that i'm using is Matrox's > > properitory thing. > > the mga driver doesn't work with my card, a parhelia P650. > > they'll take months to incoporate the changes. > > > > how do i revert back to the version of the xserver before the pci-rework > > stage? > > Probably best off using the server-1.4-branch > > Dave. > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> My apologies for not properly replying to this thread (I'm behind a firewall and can only use web mail). I have been following the git ebuilds for x-server and xf86-video-ati (radeon) driver until the pci-rework branch using the x11 layman overlay in Gentoo. First off, does anyone have contact details of person(s) maintaining the x11 overlay? There are a few issues with the ebuilds such as ebuilds for libpixman-1.0.0 missing, etc... Searching for 'x11 layman' produces everything under the sun but the overlay info :) It would also be nice if the overlay provided means of compiling x-server without the pci rework and compiz without xcb (for users of Java). I'd be willing to contribute to this... Secondly, I had a curious problem with compiz/compiz-fusion. It appears that compiz, compiz-fusion now uses the xcb protocol. Once x-server was recompiled with xcb support and the latest git versions of compiz and compiz-fusion were run, my desktop (KDE 3.5) would freeze after a period of time. There were no messages in X log, dmesg, xsession-errors. The system appeared to still function in the background, mouse-pointer moving but no other input was possible. This does not occur when running KDE without compiz. I have also noted that certain applications fail to work with xcb, such as Sun Java, due to some sort of locking issue (pardon my ignorance on this issue - I'm just a user). Before I fire off a bug report with compiz people, is it possible that it could be another application (firefox, KDE, etc) that may be acquiring some sort of lock and eventually locking up compiz? I will read up on xcb to get a better understanding of it, but one has only so much time in between compiles and recompiles ;) Finally, just for anyone else using the x11 overlay, copying the xorg-server-9999 ebuild to a local overlay and modifying the following part allows one to build the latest ati driver: src_unpack() { x-modular_specs_check x-modular_dri_check # Don't patch before everything's ready PATCHES="" mesa_git_src_unpack local EGIT_BRANCH="server-1.4-branch" local EGIT_TREE="server-1.4-branch" git_src_unpack x-modular_patch_source # Set up kdrive servers to build if use kdrive; then kdrive_setup fi # Make sure eautoreconf gets run if we need the autoconf/make # changes. if [[ ${SNAPSHOT} != "yes" ]]; then if use kdrive; then eautoreconf fi fi x-modular_reconf_source } </div></div> <hr size=1> Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. <a href="http://au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/default_all/storage/*http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html" target=_blank>Get it now</a>. </body></html>