current git xf86-video-ati doesn't compile with EXA disabled

Frank Gevaerts frank at gevaerts.be
Fri Jun 30 04:12:57 PDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:09:28PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 13:01 +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:21:03AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 22:12 +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > The current git version of xf86-video-ati doesn't compile with EXA
> > > > disabled since commit 79d1c573133e64ddf4446b6bb0eaab4a5a6c73ab
> > > > (Implement accelerated EXA DownloadFromScreen hook). 
> > > 
> > > I guess I don't really understand why one would do that. ;)
> > 
> > I wanted to compile it using current debian sid. The exa headers there
> > are too old, and I didn't feel like getting more than strictly
> > necessary from outside debian.
> 
> Note that current xf86-video-ati is incompatible with xserver 1.0 for
> other reasons (that could theoretically be handled though, IIRC the nv
> driver does). ati-1-0-branch is intended for building against xserver
> 1.0.

It does seem to work...

Frank

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