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authorGaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>2011-11-29 14:20:17 -0500
committerMartin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>2011-11-29 21:40:38 +0200
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README: do not suggest compiling with xserver older than 1.3
This was done at one point in time by some drivers (3 that I remember) but the workarounds all have been removed since. The tarballs created by those drivers picked-up whatever code happened to be on the developer disk and was not in git. The code was not maintained and in fact did not work thereafter. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/configure.ac ?id=84f69081abaeef8b05cafb64d3102eb2abdf9a8e Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>
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@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@ for the LX's video input port (VIP) feature is provided as "ztv".
Since version 2.9.0, this driver depends on X server 1.3 or greater,
because it utilizes the new common DDC probing libraries from X.Org.
-If necessary, it might be possible to create autoconf macros to make
-this driver compile against older X servers, following this example:
-
-http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2007-February/010341.html
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-Patches accomplishing the same trick for the Geode driver are welcome.
-
3.ROADMAP
Support for old GX1 Geodes by Cyrix and NSC will be reintroduced soon,