Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:02:37 -0500 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Alpha ISO is fantastic! Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C20@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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So far seems that X is running well. I have not had a chance to beat it up as of yet but will do so today. -----Mike -----Original Message----- From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 1:40 PM To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Waite, Michael; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ISO is fantastic! On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 06:03:27PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Wilko Bulte writes: > > I'd be very interested to see how the XP1000 behaves running X as I see > > problems on all my Alphas (Miata GL , Miata MX5 and EB64+/Aspen Alpine) > > when running X. > > I suspect that it will do much better because a tsunami chipset > behaves a lot like an x86 on bad accesses -- reads to bad addresses in > device memory return -1 and writes are ignored. All other platforms > give you a machine check. This confused the heck out of me when I was > doing the tsunami support. > > On a related note -- Wilko, can you try compiling X with either -O or > -O0? I just tracked down a nasty bug troubling somebody else which Sure. Is there a source tarball for the S3, S3V and Mach64 Xserver sources somewhere? I don't have X sources online here. A ISDN line makes downloading all of X a no-no. They are not on the RC2 CD (or..?) W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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