Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:45:05 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Jakob Alvermark <jakob@teligent.se>, Joe Orthoefer <orthoefe@gte.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux X servers Message-ID: <19990127004505.F19043@TelcoSucks.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270906000.8815-100000@dyn-66.teligent.se>; from Jakob Alvermark on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:12:37AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990126140944.573A-100000@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270906000.8815-100000@dyn-66.teligent.se>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:12:37AM +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Joe Orthoefer wrote: > > > Can the linux emulation layer run linux XFree86 X servers? > > > > If so, any gotcha's? I'm running the 99/1/06 snap of current. > > > > I'm trying to get a voodoo rush board working with linux mesa, and need to > > run Darryl Strauss' modified linux AT3d Xserver to get the 3d hardware > > functionality out of linux-glide. > > I would say it can, cause I'm doing it right now. > I got a new machine with an Intel i740 card, and found out that XFree86 > didn't support it, but RedHat had a binary only server for it. > > I works well with a few minor problems: > I can't the wheel on my mouse to work. > I crashes if I try to switch to a VT. > > The only thing I had to do to make it work was to symlink some tty > device files. That server is probably from a vendor Redhat works with. Often these companies also provide a FreeBSD binary of the server. Like S.u.S.E. did that for the newer Matrox cards, till they were integrated into XFree86. > > /Jakob Alvermark > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden > Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 > Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57 > * * * http://www.teligent.se * * * > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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