From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 16:23:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE03A14CC5 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA31482; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:53:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:53:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling a Custom X Server Message-ID: <19991219105317.S815@freebie.lemis.com> References: <014d01bf499b$83705980$f59fc5d1@webserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <014d01bf499b$83705980$f59fc5d1@webserver> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 13:01:09 -0800, Duke Normandin wrote: > Can someone walk me through the steps required to compile a Custom > SVGA X server? I have the cpq_driver.c for Compaq's legacy QVision > 1024/E video controller (courtesy of Hans Oey), but haven't a clue > what to do with it? I don't (yet) program in C. TIA!! If you don't program in C, the best advice would be "forget it". This sort of work is particularly complicated. It's not for cutting your teeth. You could enquire from the XFree86 people if they have any plans. But if this is an old card, it's probably not worth the weeks of work that it would take. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message