From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 21:34:54 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 CCF9314C20 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA94951; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:04:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:04:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling a Custom X Server Message-ID: <19991219160451.E465@freebie.lemis.com> References: <004701bf49e9$8b3558c0$ce9fc5d1@webserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <004701bf49e9$8b3558c0$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] I would *really* appreciate it if you found a mailer or mailer setting which doesn't mutilate the text. On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 22:23:10 -0800, Duke Normandin wrote: >> [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. > > You assume wrongly!! It is an XF86 driver built by Hans Oey down your > way somewhere for his own use and contributed to the public domain. > Just because the XF86 Project never felt the need to support it is > irrelevant. Now, that we have *that* straight, are you still adamant > that including this driver into the SVGA server would take weeks? No. Go for it. 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