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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:00:35 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compiling a Custom X Server
Message-ID:  <19991219130035.A541@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver>
References:  <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver>

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On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 18:46:58 -0800, Duke Normandin wrote:
>> 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?

I said 'weeks', not 'week'.  I'm assuming that the driver isn't an
XFree86 driver, otherwise it would already be in the tree.

Greg
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