radeon/r128 patches

Brian Victor bhv1 at psu.edu
Fri Dec 17 20:51:50 PST 2004


On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:17:25AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>Or the r128 vgaaccess patch:
>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2089
>
>Neither seems to cause any regressions on my hardware, and they make
>the r128 and radeon drivers useable on ppc without fbdev.  I've gotten
>several positive reports from ppc users, and no negative reports.

Well, this is very likely user error, but the r128 is giving me issues.
Powerbook 400 (pismo), 6.8.1 branch from cvs with the above patch
applied.

http://brianhv.org/xorgfiles/xorg.conf.3
http://brianhv.org/xorgfiles/Xorg.0.log.3

The server doesn't start up.  The short description of the problem is,
"Requested Entity already in use."

(And while I'm writing, is there any way to avoid recompiling the entire
Xorg tree when I've only changed, say, r128_driver.c?)

-- 
Brian



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