[ANN] New XFree86-pmac rsync tree

With XFree86 4.x development speeding up, I have placed an rsync tree of
my xfree86/ tree.  This rsync tree can be grabbed with:

rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac .


This tree contains the 'bleeding edge' development server and drivers for
XFree86 4.x.  Included are my development Mach64, IMS TwinTurbo 128/3D,
and Chips&Tech 6555x drivers.  The tree also contains the latest Rage128
driver.

This is NOT a full xfree86, simply the xfree86 SERVER tree.  Using this
tree is very simple, all you have to do is grab the X401src-1.tgz tarball
from ftp.xfree86.org, and replace the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86
directory with the rsync'ed one.

For detailed instructions and information, see:

http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4


The existence of this tree should facilitate development of these drivers
and keep me from having to constantly update binary drivers :)

Feel free to send me bug reports and/or patches against the tree.

ani

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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:42:13 -0700 (PDT), Ani Joshi [off-list ref] said:

Joshi> With XFree86 4.x development speeding up, I have
Joshi> placed an rsync tree of my xfree86/ tree.  This rsync
Joshi> tree can be grabbed with:

Joshi> rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac .

Joshi> For detailed instructions and information, see:

Joshi> http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4

Thanks a lot for providing such a bleeding edge.

I installed XFree86-4.0.1 accoriding to your site above.  My
machine is iMac revB (Mach64) with kernel 2.2.15pre19.  The
followings are results of x11perf -scroll500.

XFree86-3.3.3 (accelerated)

    200 reps @  36.5884 msec (    27.3/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  36.2778 msec (    27.6/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  36.2867 msec (    27.6/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  36.3211 msec (    27.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  36.2477 msec (    27.6/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
   1000 trep @  36.3443 msec (    27.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels

XFree86-4.0 with fbdev

    100 reps @  57.1679 msec (    17.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    100 reps @  52.5306 msec (    19.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    100 reps @  54.1830 msec (    18.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    100 reps @  55.1469 msec (    18.1/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    100 reps @  52.4937 msec (    19.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    500 trep @  54.3044 msec (    18.4/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels

XFree86-4.0.1 with fbdev
    200 reps @  45.5985 msec (    21.9/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  45.5996 msec (    21.9/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  45.9694 msec (    21.8/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  45.5282 msec (    22.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    200 reps @  46.0706 msec (    21.7/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
   1000 trep @  45.7533 msec (    21.9/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels

XFree86-4.0.1 with ati
    400 reps @  16.1530 msec (    61.9/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  16.1180 msec (    62.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  16.1207 msec (    62.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  16.1127 msec (    62.1/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  16.2172 msec (    61.7/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
   2000 trep @  16.1443 msec (    61.9/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels

So, even fbdev seems to be a little bit accelerated compared
with 4.0.0.  :-)

Acceleration of ati is great.  The problem, however, is that
it can not be used.  When I used ati module, the color on X was
shifted to brown (or red?), and a lot of spectrum were
seen.

I attach XFree86.0.log when I used ati module.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Kohkichi Hosoda

E-mail address: khosoda@venus.dti.ne.jp

Acceleration of ati is great.  The problem, however, is that
it can not be used.  When I used ati module, the color on X was
shifted to brown (or red?), and a lot of spectrum were
seen.

Use 8 or 15 bpp, nothing else worked for me.

	Michael


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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:01:01 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz [off-list ref] said:

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Acceleration of ati is great.  The problem, however, is
that it can not be used.  When I used ati module, the
color on X was shifted to brown (or red?), and a lot of
spectrum were seen.

Schmitz> Use 8 or 15 bpp, nothing else worked for me.

Schmitz> 	Michael

Thank you for quick advice, and sorry for delayed response.
I'm away for a while.

Actually, my correspondign part of XF86Config is as the following;

    Driver      "ati"
#     Driver      "fbdev"
        BusID       "PCI:0:18:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
#       Device     "r128"
#       Monitor    "Monitor0"
    Device     "ATY,RagePro_C"
    Monitor    "iMac Monitor"
        DefaultDepth      15

I also tried DefaultDepth 8, and both settings also gave me
a lot of spectrum and strange color on X.

Thanks a lot anyway.

Kohkichi Hosoda

E-mail address: khosoda@venus.dti.ne.jp

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Kohkichi Hosoda wrote:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
#       Device     "r128"
#       Monitor    "Monitor0"
    Device     "ATY,RagePro_C"
    Monitor    "iMac Monitor"
        DefaultDepth      15

I also tried DefaultDepth 8, and both settings also gave me
a lot of spectrum and strange color on X.

And what exactly does the 15 and 8 bit subsections look like?

You will need fbbpp = 16 for 15 bit. And Ani's latest (yesterday's)
source has no color or accel problems whatsoever for me.

	Michael


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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:41:35 +0200, Michael Schmitz [off-list ref] said:

Schmitz> You will need fbbpp = 16 for 15 bit. And Ani's
Schmitz> latest (yesterday's) source has no color or accel
Schmitz> problems whatsoever for me.

Great!!
I did rsync today, and all my problems vanished without
changing my XF86Config.

The result of x11perf -scroll500 is;

Sync time adjustment is 0.1772 msecs.

    400 reps @  15.3786 msec (    65.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  15.2951 msec (    65.4/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  15.2642 msec (    65.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  15.2559 msec (    65.5/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
    400 reps @  15.2519 msec (    65.6/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
   2000 trep @  15.2891 msec (    65.4/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels

So, X on my iMac runs about three times faster than it used
to with fbdev.

Thank you very much.

Kohkichi Hosoda

E-mail address: khosoda@venus.dti.ne.jp

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