Porting drivers from xfree86 4.3.0.1

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 22:06:20 PDT 2008


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Alberto Alonso <sp-xorglist at ggsys.net> wrote:
> As I have not found a solution to my G200MMS issues I would
> like to take a shot at porting the working drivers from
> Xfree86 4.3.0.1 to a recent version of xorg.
>
> Can someone point me to any documentation that will be a
> good starting point for someone that has never dealt with
> video drivers before?
>

Checkout the xf86-video-mga driver from X.org

compare to the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga

from XFree86.

Find bug, fix.

Dave.



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