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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:28:38 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Tilman Linneweh <arved@arved.at>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MiniMac and Xorg
Message-ID:  <4248AF46.6020800@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050324230458.GD1178@arved.at>
References:  <20050324230458.GD1178@arved.at>

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Hi Tilman,

  Thanks for giving it a go !

 > Does xorg already work on powerpc?

  I've run 6.8.1 on

  - rev B iMac               (Rage 3D Pro 215GP, accel disabled).
  - 700Mhz eMac              (Nvidia GeForce2 MX)
  - 12" 1.33G G4 powerbook   (Nvidia GeForce G5200)

  and Martin Minkus has run it on a 350MHz iMac, Rage 128VR.

  It hasn't worked on ATI Radeon-based machines yet: looks like a range 
check will have to be relaxed in the ofw syscons mmap code. So, out of 
luck with the miniMac until I get that tested. Plus I'm going to update 
to 6.8.2.

 > (BTW the usb Keyboard does not work inside DDB...)

  That is a relic of syscons: the keyboard isn't attached until USB is 
probed. I'm thinking of putting in a hack to allow the keyboard to be 
accessed by OpenFirmware until it is probed by h/w - this will allow 
breakpoints to be set during boot.

 >BTW, I put this information on the wiki
 >http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/powerpc

  Thankyou for that and also the multitude of packages that you've built :)

later,

Peter.



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