AW: NSC video driver 2.8.2 - totally broken

[Markus Stockhausen]

Hi,

the patches ar uploadeded to the bug database.

Best regards.

Markus

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alan Hourihane [mailto:alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 17:42
An: Markus Stockhausen
Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Betreff: Re: NSC video driver 2.8.2 - totally broken


On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:25 +0200, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got an info from Kristian Høgsberg to contact this list for issues
> regarding the NSC X.ORG video driver - so I write here.
>
> It seems as if I have faced a major problem when making the latest
2.8.2
>
> NSC X.ORG video driver for Linux on IA32. The bug is described in
X.Org
> Bugzilla Bug 9588 (Removal of XFree86Server define broke nsc on
> non-Linux
> OS'es) and sadly Linux systems are affected too. You can find a small
> discussion of the problem at http://muzso.hu/node/3929. The complete
> initialization path is going wrong.
>
> As the 2.8.2 driver is definetly not working when compiled from source
> with X.Org 7.2 my suggestion would be to substitute all occurrences of
> "#ifdef XFree86Server" with an appropriate precompiler check. When
using
> the !XFree86Server compilation path the driver is totally stuck and
> useless.
>
> Because I don't know how to provide patches to this project I would
like
>
> to make the necessary changes and send the diff files to anyone for
> uploading the corrected code. Please give me a short feedback of how
we
> can
> get the fixes in place.

Please upload any fixes to bugs.freedesktop.org and select xorg & nsc
driver components.

Thanks!

Alan.





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