Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:42:09 +0200 From: Dermot McNally <dermot@mcnally.de> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990928183931.00ac7270@tim> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271010160.88591-100000@eccles.salk.edu>
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Just to add my experience to the picture: At 10:41 27/09/99 -0700, Tom Bartol wrote: >1) We could "make" XFree86 but a "make install" failed due to a missing >/usr/include/sys/pci_ioctl.h. We noticed that patch-4 for for >/usr/port/x11/XFree86 includes a patch to "#include <sys/pci_ioctl.h>" >however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system. >"make world" in /usr/src does not install this file. We found the file in >/usr/src/sys/pci and copied it by hand to /usr/include/sys. After this a >"make install" for XFree86 succeeded. FreeBSD for Intel does not have >this file in /usr/include/sys and XFree86 does not require it on Intel. Yup, same here, and the same solution. >3) We configured X to run the X_SVGA server for our Matrox Millenium II. >The server starts up fine but some windows are filled with black and >menus pop up empty until you run the mouse cursor over the locations where >the text should be. Exactly the same symptoms here. It's a 2 Meg Matrox Millenium, and the box, FWIW, is a DEC Personal Workstation 433. Cheers, Dermot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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