From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 20:11:44 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 E245A14C30 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA00592; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:00:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:00:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling a Custom X Server Message-ID: <19991219130035.A541@freebie.lemis.com> References: <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <001401bf49cb$591b18c0$ce9fc5d1@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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] 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 -- 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