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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:30:56 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
Cc:        Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <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:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101271408130.21164-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010126215326.A4876@freebie.demon.nl>

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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> 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?

sure - please close it!

I sent the PR.
>
> tnx
>
> Wilko

thanks a lot
	Jan
>
>
> > 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.
> >
....





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