Re: [Dri-devel] Savage driver

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 09:53:48 +0600
"Dimitry N. Naldaev" <di...@ti...> wrote:

> What is the current state of the Savage DRI driver?
> And what need to be done at the now?

The savage driver is still in a very early development stage. The only
reason for installing it on your system would be if you want to help
with the development.

Jose Fonseca and Andreas Karrenbauer have been working on the 2D DDX
driver (making it DRI aware) and the kernel driver. I think there is
still work to be done in these fields. Once these two are basically
functional work on the Mesa driver can begin.

If you don't understand what I'm talking about but want to help anyway
then the Developer FAQ on dri.sf.net is a good starting point.

> 
> It look like there is no 3D driver (or part of the driver) for Savage or I am 
> mistaken?
> I try to comtile and test the curent cvs version of the branch 
> savage-0-0-1-branch without instalation in main filsystem tree
> (I have also installed XRee86-4.1 from Debian woody) on my notebook with 
> Savage-MX video subsystem. glxinfo say me about using indirect rendering.
> The GL screensevers from xlock work fine without any visible artifacts but 
> probably through mesa software backend. Is this result of using wrong GL libs 
> from the old XFree installation? And how I can say to tested Xserver to use 
> new compiled libGL from xc/exports/lib (this is unclear form "DRI Compilation 
> Guide")?
> 
> With best regards,
> Dimitry
> 
> PS: Sorry for my english.

I've seen worse ;-)

Best regards,
  Felix

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