[haiku-development] Re: S3 Video Driver

Hi Gerald,

Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The list of chips supported by this driver is:

That's an impressive list! Thanks a lot!
I've added the new driver to the repository in r25583. I just had to 
add a <errno.h> include in accel.c to make it compile under Haiku.

> 1) With the Virge VX chip, the hardware cursor disappears when the 
> resolution is set to 640 x 480.  Since Haiku uses a software cursor, 
> this is only a problem for BeOS and Zeta.

Haiku will get a hardware cursor, too, one day. Maybe it could disable 
the hardware cursor for this resolution? Or are you already doing that?
If that's not possible with BeOS (I'm not sure right now), we can 
easily change that for Haiku, though.

> 2) The Savage 3D and Savage MX chips perform rather poorly.  In fact 
> most of the Trio and Virge chips perform better.  If the Savage 3D is 
> stressed, it sometimes locks up.

Poor performance is acceptable, locking up doesn't sound too good, 
though. Do you have any idea what could be causing this? Do other 
platforms like Linux suffer from similar problems?

Bye,
   Axel.

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