[Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics ...

[Erling A. J. <lin...@em...>]

even in spite of what the experts say:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1506938&forum_id=7177

I run Red Hat Linux 7.3, and have a Voodoo Graphics card.

I am prepared to fiddle with the sources myself, basically by
installing the sources from the SRPM, adding and changing things,
thus creating a patch, which can be included in a new SRPM, which
can be built, resulting in XFree86 RPMS which support the Voodoo
Graphics card. Sounds quite simple :-)

The sourcefiles which need to be added are (basically, I think)
the FX subdirectory from Mesa-3.4.2 (which corresponds to the version
of Mesa in the XFree86 sources).

As far as I can guess right now, after only limited research into the
sources, is that when X/DRI sees that no DRI support is available,
the software rendering in Mesa is used (which I guess is the files
programs/Xserver/GL/mesa/src/X/xmesa{1,2,3,4}.c and others ?)

The good old Mesa-3.4.2 can be Voodoo Graphics enabled by having
it include the FX subdirectory, so why shouldn't it still work ?

Erling Jacobsen
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