From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 17:45:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524C514BE9 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 17:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.159.206]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FMYSXE00.BL6; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:46:26 -0700 Message-ID: <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Compiling a Custom X Server Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:46:58 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Lehey To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions Date: Saturday, December 18, 1999 4:22 PM Subject: Re: Compiling a Custom X Server |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. A whole week to simply include it into the SVGA source? later...duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message