[Openchrome-users] VX800 patch against randr

[pcpa@mandriva.com.br]

Quoting Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:

> pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
>> Quoting Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:
>>
>>> Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>>>> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>>>> Lemme know if it helps.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Sorry for replying for the list also, but I think it is
>>>> good news. It works, at 800x480 :-)
>>>>
>>> Excellent :-) No pb for the list, I just forgot to add it to the mail.
>>>
>>>>  But using NoAccel, and still locks completely the
>>>> computer when exiting the X Server.
>>>>
>>> As I told you, I'm blindly trying to add VX800 to some switches 
>>> here and there, w/o real knowledge, so the lock up is probably me 
>>> doing something stupid. It's going to be hard to debug w/o the 
>>> hardware, so if you got a bit of time to spare, it'll probably be 
>>> faster if you try on your own. And we'll probably need a branch to 
>>> work on that, tracking stuff with a patch will probably not scale 
>>> very well.
>>
>>  I have been told these computers will become very popular, and
>> in a few months, you buy a "Kinder" (www.ferrero.com) and there
>> is one of those computers inside.
>>
> hehe, I'm going to buy them by dozen until I find one then. My 2 
> years old daughter will love it (until I stole the computer from her 
> ;-))
>
>>  But seriously, I don't have it available all the time as there are
>> others problems to be solved on it. But I will try to debug it. It
>> seems to not be too hard to figure out what is wrong in the "cleanup",
>> and after that, make some experiments to enable acceleration.
>
> Keep us mailed, once you have something reasonably stable, I'll push 
> it to trunk or create a branch.
>
>> Maybe
>> documentation for it will also be make freely available soon from via
>> website...
>>
> Maybe, let's knock on wood...
>
>>  The OEM for it will now be done in France, at least a generic OEM,
>> that I believe is targeted to add value for www.zonbu.com computers.
>>
> Do you have more details ? I live in France, so I might be able to 
> grab one, if they're so cheap.

  Unfortunately not. But I can talk with some people to get more details.
I don't make any decisions, but I would like to know that it is you that
are working on it :-)
  I think it is a general consensus that having an opensource driver would
be way better.

> Regards,
> Xavier

Paulo