Siliconmotion driver update for XFree 4.3?

[Gerhart, Bjoern]

Hi Paulo,

thanks for your quick reply.


> But
> some of the features in that driver include randr 1.2 (with 
> multihead),

Before we had siliconmotion driver release 1.4.9, we could not operate an SM712 chip as secondary graphics adapter, while the onboard chipset (in our case driven by i810) provided the primary graphics adapter. Release 1.4.9 supported this kind of multi head. But maybe this improvement has flown into randr 1.2?

There was another strange behaviour which was removed with our 1.4.9 driver. The Video BIOS identification string was shown up twice each time initializing X (using the SM712 chip).


>   They are already in version 2.2.8, while we are on version 1.6.1 :-)

Ah, okay I see that the 1.4.9 driver is quite old in the meantime *smile*
However, with Xorg 7.1 (as distributed with CentOS 5), I had the same issues with the siliconmotion driver concerning the SM712 chip described above.


> If you can send me the tarball it should be easier to handle, then
> real diffs. As there may exist useful features that were removed...

Okay, I appended the tgz of our working siliconmotion driver sources 1.4.9 to this email (compilable against XFree 4.3).


Thanks a lot for your help.


Regards
Björn

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