Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:20:18 -0500 (EST) From: Horen <horen@ny-myth.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211081017020.2654-100000@salome.ny-myth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211080920420.23282-100000@salome.ny-myth.com>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Horen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > Horen wrote:
> > > On FreeBSD 4.6 or 4.7 works, on FreeBSD 5.0 it doesn't work.
> > > Don't you think it is OS related. ?
> >
> > THere are a lot of MS-DOS programs that won't run on FreeBSD;
> > I don't think that's FreeBSD-related, I think it's the code
> > doing the wrong things to run on FreeBSD.
>
The purpose of trying FreeBSD 5.0 was to test development code.
I'm positive, few MS-DOS programs won't run on FreeBSD,
probably some Mac OS 7 - 9 programs either.
I'm doing nms development on unix (spec. BSD) for a very long while,
didn't use it to test if MS Office will run.
Now the missing facts:
4.x binaries will not run on 5.0, lib.c inconsistency.
Identical XFree86 sources compiled nativly on 4.6, 4.7 and 5.0.
4.6-4.7: no problem
5.0: logout from X blocks the graphic card, Matrox MGA 400
and also Nvidia GeForce2 MX200
I doubt, that something else than OS related issues are the
cause.
Switched back to 4.7 , will try again 5.0 in few weeks.
Thanks,
-Horen
>
> >
> > > I even installed Linux RedHat 8.0 ( gcc 3.2x ) code. It works.
> > > Only on FreeBSD 5,0 , it doesn't work.
> >
> > Have you tried running the 4.x binaries on 5.x, or are you
> > running different binaries? It could be that the code is
> > broken in a way that exercises a complier error; 5.x uses a
> > different compiler than 4.x.
> >
> > I would recommend you install the 4.x binaries on 5.x, rather
> > than running 5.x binaries.
> >
> > If the binaries are exactly the same, then I will be willing
> > to blame the OS, even though you are one of the few persons
> > who are running into problems.
> >
> > As far as root cause analysis goes, you've given us a report
> > that looks like "it doesn't work". If you can make it so that
> > the only thing that has changed is the OS, then it willbe much
> > easier to blame the OS.
> >
> > I'm still not sure that it isn't the AGP driver being different.
> >
> > Have you tried an unaccelerated X server? I'm talking "Xvga",
> > not just turning off the acceleration in the config file...
> >
> > -- Terry
> >
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