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["Antonio J. de Oliveira" <ajoliveira@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I have been out on another non-profit, making a conference on
advanced audio and electroacoustics, there I am a pro, not in
video...@tpurch, it seems as I told Martin in private I used some branch
of your published code on the last version with a few modifications i
did. The code used before was another branch, which was not 1366x768
compatible. If it has debug sumbols that will be on the makefile, and
quite frankly, the driver looks quite the same in terms of size...who
knows, i'm (very) familiar with dsp fixed-point assembler, kernel
drivers I didn't touched those since win32, did about 4, written in
32-bit 8086 assembler.

Coming back to the latest code, I have a few notes taken, told Martin
that I would ship the source to him and yes. He will have the code and
instructions this week, I will publish those, after I finally sit down
and look at what I did to make that totally patched code compatible with
Maverick.

No tracking records exist for that code, and everything is a mess,
that's why this has to gain access to tracked repositories. I tried to
diff those from previous versions anad was a little astonished, and evn
produced a code migrating directly from 8.10 to Maverick, but the flaws
were there.

>From the results patent on-screen when starting up, there are problems
to be solved in this driver. When I picked up from the changes made
after 9.04, the driver was already an unfriendly one (Plymouth
incompatibility), so my 9.04 version, which source code I preserve,
should be the basis for any changes, but taking into account all the
others since 8.10. Fortunately I kept just about everything.

Now it is time to organize it and deliver it to who will be in charge.
What I did up to the moment was trying to avoid the worst, keeping good
people using a nice, community-maintained system. But, again, community-
maintained does not mean chaos, and so it is good that things will be
getting back on track, because there are huge quantities of these
systems around the world.

If this does not enter the current branch in xorg, I will continue to
patch, because I still have a couple of this systems around. What I
cannot do is to retrace the past work. I don't have the immediate
expertise or time to do that.

All the best

Antonio

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