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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:24:36 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu>
To:        Kazuyoshi Furutaka <furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alpha/67626 w/ 6.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <47DD2DA4.8030105@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080316.215643.1631540974.furutaka@jb3.so-net.ne.jp>
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Kazuyoshi Furutaka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: alpha/67626 w/ 6.3-RELEASE (Re: alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot)
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:26:34 -0600
> 
>> I had this problem with xorg-server for a while (on a PC164). It
>> turned out to be due to bad RAM. Replacing all 4 DIMMs with matched
>> sticks solved the problem beautifully. Using the xorg vesa driver
>> also worked. 
>> -Nathan
> 
> Nathan, what X server are you using?  (how did you build it?)
> After seeing reboots caused by the XFree86-4 server, I've tried
> to build xorg server using the ports but failed: `make install`
> in /usr/ports/x11/xorg ended by saying
>   ===>  xorg-server-1.4_3,1 does not run on ia64 alpha, while you are running alpha.

This is with xorg-server. I had to patch it up a little to build. In 
particular, you need to remove the thing that says it doesn't run on 
alpha, and you need to patch it to link itself against libio. I don't 
remember where you need to do the second part -- it will become apparent 
though.
-Nathan



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