Re: C&T acceleration support, needs testers.
From: Vinai <hidden>
Date: 1999-07-31 20:12:24
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Ryuichi Oikawa wrote: }I'm trying to implement C&T 6555x HW acceleration to the X servers. }I put a Xpmac binary: } ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/users/oikawa/Xserver/hw/powermac/Xpmac- }19990731-glibc2.1.gz }XF68_FBDev version hasn't been compiled, yet. } }Because I don't have any C&T 6555x hardware, I need testers for }debugging. Thank you for your help. Hi, I grabbed your Xpmac binary this morning and tried it out on a 3400/240 running R5. It seemed to work well for the most part. Very noticeable acceleration, especailly over the XF86 server I was currently using. I did run into a couple problems though. - If windows are moved around too quickly, vertical bands appear. If I explicitly request that part of the screen to be redrawn (e.g. by my closing the xterm and reopening it), the lines disappear. - When I passed it the wrong option (I used "startx --depth 16" instead of the correct "startx -- -depth 16", it off course ignored the wrong swtich and started up in 8-bit colour). But on exiting X, it locked up the machine completely. I couldn't even switch to another virtual console to kill the process or reboot the machine, so I ended up with a hard reboot). For a window managers - I am using an old version of AfterStep that I recompiled from the src.rpm for R5. It is version 1.0.7a (Yes - I know it's old, but it is small, I know how to set it up, and does all I need ;-) Otherwise, I have not found any other problems, and the person that uses this machine is actually pretty happy right now, as am I ;-) Thanks for the great work !! cheers vinai [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]