NSC video driver 2.8.2 - totally broken

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:25 +0200, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got an info from Kristian Høgsberg to contact this list for issues
> regarding the NSC X.ORG video driver - so I write here.
> 
> It seems as if I have faced a major problem when making the latest 2.8.2
> 
> NSC X.ORG video driver for Linux on IA32. The bug is described in X.Org
> Bugzilla Bug 9588 (Removal of XFree86Server define broke nsc on
> non-Linux
> OS'es) and sadly Linux systems are affected too. You can find a small
> discussion of the problem at http://muzso.hu/node/3929. The complete
> initialization path is going wrong.
> 
> As the 2.8.2 driver is definetly not working when compiled from source
> with X.Org 7.2 my suggestion would be to substitute all occurrences of
> "#ifdef XFree86Server" with an appropriate precompiler check. When using
> the !XFree86Server compilation path the driver is totally stuck and
> useless.
> 
> Because I don't know how to provide patches to this project I would like
> 
> to make the necessary changes and send the diff files to anyone for
> uploading the corrected code. Please give me a short feedback of how we
> can
> get the fixes in place.

Please upload any fixes to bugs.freedesktop.org and select xorg & nsc
driver components.

Thanks!

Alan.