From: Ian R. <id...@us...> - 2004-05-13 23:57:34
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Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Chris Pickett wrote: >> Chris Pickett wrote: >> >>> I'm sorry to be so persistent here, but what are the specific steps >>> (not the exact commands, e.g. "checkout pkg X" is clear enough) we >>> need to do to apply this patch to our gentoo systems running (well, >>> at least in my case) xorg-6.7.0? >> >> My sincere apologies. I'm being an idiot. I missed the "Building" >> page in the wiki, for some reason. > > It certainly would be easier if this patch could be integrated into cvs > (so it would appear in the snapshots), maybe this would be possible? At > first sight it looks quite good to me and as far as I can see it > shouldn't cause much harm, though I don't really have much of an idea of > the code in that area ;-). > (crossposting to dri-devel, the patch in question is this: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dri-devel&m=107441452310930&w=2) > Or is everyone waiting for a better buffer allocation scheme? Some other changes would need to be made to the DRI drivers. Right now the code in radeon_screen.c (and r200_screen.c) that builds the list of available fbconfigs assumes that screen BPP == depth buffer BPP. |