mga patch

Randy Pratt bsd-unix at embarqmail.com
Sun Nov 4 08:59:55 PST 2007


On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 07:06:12 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 1.4.7 doesn't work for a lot of people, either, at least anybody who 
> wants to use dualhead.  Or xrandr-1.2.  My bug report on that is 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116851
> 
> > Can you check if it will work with the patch?
> 
> 1.4.7 with your patch (and my patch to xorg-server) behaves as expected: 
> no dualhead with either old or new (xrandr-1.2) xorg.conf.
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> I'd suggest leaving the xf86-video-mga as it is (1.9.100, the newer 
> xrandr-1.2 driver).
> 
> Add another port for the legacy version (1.4.7) for those who need it 
> until the newer driver replaces it entirely.

I think I would prefer to see the 1.9.100 version as
xf86-video-mga-devel and the 1.4.7 version as the main version.  The
reasoning is that people new to FreeBSD will probably not be running
dual head to begin with.  Their experience could end up negative if
they were to try the 1.9.100 version.

I thought in general new things were in a -devel version and when
ready merged into the main version.  At least for my hardware and
needs, the 1.9.100 version is not quite ready.  I guess it would
depend on what serves the most the best.

But this is all my opinion and I'm not the one doing the work ;-)

Randy
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