Compiling xf86-video-xgi driver for ARM

[Jeffrey Langerak]

Hi,

I will try the xgixp / sis driver to see if one of them works, I don't 
feel much for rewriting the driver as I don't know where to begin that 
process. I am comfortable with Linux and compiling stuff and scripting a 
bit as well, but to write a driver is a bit much :).

I will let you know if I manage to get thing working.

Kind regards,

Jeffrey Langerak

On 01/15/2013 07:21 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Langerak
> <jeffrey at prutsertjes.nl> wrote:
>> at's what I am starting to conclude as well. Some of the XGI chips are
>> supported by the sis driver, should that work for the Z11 as well? My
>> information only tells me that it won't go any further than the Z7. Yet if X
>> would tell me why the module fails at some point...
>>
>> I really hate this chip, the device works pretty neat, but the chip is
>> impossible to work with...
>>
>> So my only option is to use fbdev, are there any options in xorg.conf that
>> can provide some performance improvements, I've only seen a more stable
>> cursor with hwcursor set to on, any further improvements are welcome.
> There are databooks for the various xgi chips floating around if you
> wanted to try and fix the driver yourself.  You might try the sis
> driver as well.  XGI was basically the former SiS and trident graphics
> teams combined into one.  Most of the chips are re-badged SiS chips,
> but they did make one based on a former trident design (xg47, possibly
> handled by the xf86-video-xgixp driver IIRC).
>
> Alex