mga patch

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:12:41PM -0600 Warren Block mentioned:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> 
>> It's looks like that mga driver was updated to the wrong snapshot
>> (from the incorrect branch).
> 
> Which version?

I have compared both the 1.9.100 and 1.4.7 versions to git HEAD,
and 1.4.7 is much closer.

1.9.100 doesn't work for a lot of people, take a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117726
for example.

> 
>> It caused a lot of problems for people with Matrox cards, if fact i 
>> haven't heard about any 'success story' with it:-)
> 
> Not sure what you mean.  Several of us are using xf86-video-mga 1.9.100 
> like this:
> 
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/mgapatch/xorg-patch.txt

Can you check if it will work with the patch?

> 
>> The patch attached reverts the port back to 1.4.7 version (which is
>> looks like the latest version available) and also adds some patches
>> from git for known problems.
> 
> No patch attached.
> 

Ok, probably I forgot it, it's in place now.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE