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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:46:58 -0800
From:      "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compiling a Custom X Server
Message-ID:  <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver>

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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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



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