Will like to release xf86-video-mga Version 1.7 soon

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Matthieu,

I do have several models of Millennium 4 MB PCI, one G200 8 MB AGP, one or two G400 AGP (16 MB to 32 MB) , one G400 MAX AGP, and several G450 and G550 (mostly AGP, but at least one PCI).
For G200, I need a mainboard with AGP 3.3V signaling support in order to use it, and I tried to set up a dual boot system with Windows this morning, but due to hard drive issues (i.e., gradual degradation of the hard drive sectors even not in use), I am currently prevented from resizing the Windows partition.
I will have to go find another functioning Windows box for me to run chkdsk command over this hard drive.

Regards,

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM
> From: "Matthieu Herrb" <matthieu at herrb.eu>
> To: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> Cc: xorg-devel at lists.x.org
> Subject: Re: Will like to release xf86-video-mga Version 1.7 soon
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:30:52PM +0100, Kevin Brace wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am not personally invested in maintaining xf86-video-mga DDX code at this point, but the other day, I built an AMD Athlon 64 based computer with Matrox G400 MAX AGP graphics card, and noticed that the last few commit ago commit broke the screen.
> > Fortunately, the person who committed the code was able to fix the code very quickly, and I committed the code into the upstream repository.
> > The code is back to working okay, again.
> > Anyway, I decided to fix a few annoying compilation warnings, and I just posted the patches to this mailing list.
> > If there are no objections, I will like to increment the version of xf86-video-mga DDX to Version 1.7 (1.7.0) early next week.
> > If there are people out there who care about xf86-video-mga DDX, please test the code to see if it is working before I increment the version.
> > If there are serious issues outstanding, I can postpone the new release.
> > 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I don't have an AGP motherboard anymore to test my MGA cards, but I
> had the fabs() diff I just sent to xorg-devel@ in my tree for some
> time. You may want to consider it for the 1.7.0 release.
> 
> -- 
> Matthieu Herrb
>