From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 01:22:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33CB16A41F for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:22:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4156B43D49 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:22:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.2.137] (CPE-2-137.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.2.137]) by liberty.onthenet.com.au (8.12.9 - 20030918/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j661MH7v069512; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:22:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <42CB3243.2010804@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:22:11 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org References: <20050705163155.GA18493@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <42CB0C67.7030705@freebsd.org> <20050706011247.GA20055@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050706011247.GA20055@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac Mini and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:22:22 -0000 Hi Sean, >> Looks like you do need to build a new kernel. Anyways, it's about time >>I put together a new snapshot. > > > Okay -- is it sufficient to build a kernel with current sources or > will I need to do a buildworld as well? I think a kernel should be OK. Note that I haven't run up a kernel for about a month now (and won't be able to for another 1/2 day or so), so there's a chance something might have broken in that time. > Of course if you want to > throw together a new snapshot I'd be more than willing to test it > out for you. ;-) Let's do both :) >> The Xorg radeon driver needs to be patched - see the 'Known Issues' >>section on the ppc page. > > > I saw that... are the changes such that they could be included in > the port as a patch that does not conflict with other arches? (I'll > have a look at what they are...) It could be worth shooting it over > to Eric Anholt for inclusion if so. I think the main changes were #ifdef'd ppc, so if you have success I'll file a PR. I have to say, the freebsd-x11 guys were *GREAT* in getting my PR's pulled into the xorg port so quickly. >> The main problem I've had with Xorg on the mini is that switching back >>to a VTY seems to leave the screen in a very darkened state: it's >>difficult to read the text. Maybe some X gurus out there can diagnose >>that problem. > > > Okay. Maybe I can take a look at it when I get it running. Does > dpms work? If so, does putting the display to sleep bring > brightness back to normal levels? Or is it just the VTY that is > dim? It's just the VTY. Going back to X works fine. I don't know if DPMS works - I guess I never had it going for that long to see. later, Peter.