Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:53:26 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, vanilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/24535: the function XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines of XFree 3.3.6 for alpha will hang up Message-ID: <20010126215326.A4876@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101261642120.343-100000@mach.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>; from schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:20:42PM %2B0100 References: <20010123195102.F348@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101261642120.343-100000@mach.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:20:42PM +0100, Ralph Schreyer wrote: Jan & Ralph, Do you agree to me closing the aforementioned alpha PR? If you want you can send-pr the suggestion for the enlightenment port maybe? tnx Wilko > Hi all, > > so we built XFree86 4.0.2 on our digital 433au running FreeBSD 4.2R, but > we were not able to start neither the Xserver nor xdm. Up to now we could > not figure out why. Therefore we fetched the 3.3.6 versions of the Xserver > and xdm via sysinstall, thereby shooting half of our root-directory (much > fun :). > > But after all, we compiled enlightenment against this mixed XFree86 > (including the 4.0.2 libs), and now the XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines() call > works! > > Perhaps it's possible to include a check of the version of XFree86 in the > Makefile of enlightenment that enables or disables the above function > call. > > Thank you very much for your help and best regards, > > Jan & Ralph. > > > P.S: Concerning the problem with the Xserver and xdm in 4.0.2 we already > mailed to the XFree people. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:12:35AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > Jan Conrad writes: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > maybe wait for XFree 4... > > > > > > > > > > FWIW, I run 4.02 on all my alphas. > > > > > > > > > > If you're willing to write a toy app that demonstrates the > > > > > failure of XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines() call, I'd be willing to test > > > > > it for you on a 4.02 X server. > > > > > > > > > > Drew > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here it comes! > > > > > > > > have fun! > > > > > > It seems to be a library problem rather than a server problem. When > > > compiled against 3.3.4, it behaves the way you've remarked. (eats up > > > all memory) no matter what server you run it against (3.3.x or 4.02). > > > > > > When compiled against 4.02 libs, it seems to work just fine. And it > > > works against a 4.02 server _and_ a 3.3.4 server. > > > > > > So, you might have success with enlightnement if you were to build > > > XF86 4.02 from ports. > > > > I'd appreciate feedback on this proposal, so that I can continue my > > janitorial duties on the alpha PRs ;-) > > > > thanks, > > > > W/ > > > > > > ---end of quoted text--- -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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