[nwst-dev] Re: Video on the ns1000

[Santiago G. M. <ma...@ay...>]

> I posted a newer patch on sourceforge which allows to run the S3 chip at
> 640x480-8, or 80x30. I need to add support for multiple modes, and
> perhaps a couple other items. The boot stage does not know how to talk
> to the S3 chip, so that still goes over the serial port for now.

This are great news anyway, really a great work that you are doing.

I do not have the time to test all this now as I'm leaving for Madrid, and
then I'll be on vacation for a week and I won't have access to the hardware,
but I have posted all the xfree stuff I have compiled for Debian on the same
url I used before for the rest of the stuff
(http://prohibido.aytolacoruna.es/nc/) this includes the full xfree 4.2.1
stuff compiled for woody and also basic xfree 3.3.6 for woody, wich has the
xserver-fbdev that you wanted to test.

There seems to be a problem with XFree and this cards, as I couldn't get
4.2.1 to run on a GX version of the S3 64V2 on a Pentium based machine, so
I'm filling a bug on this now. The 3.3.6 version of Xfree had support for
this on the svga server, but it didn't compile at first try here and I don't
have time to see why, however fixing 4.2.1 seems a better way to go for me,
maybe the cvs could help with this, we'll see what the X boys say about
this.

Well, I'll see what you all can do and try to help you when I'm back.

See you all and good luck with this.

Regards.