From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 04:27:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D72B16A419 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:27:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1A113C461 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:27:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from excfreebsd.hq.netapp.com (nat-198-95-226-228.netapp.com [198.95.226.228]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id DJZ09047 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:27:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <47689D8C.9040108@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:26:52 -0800 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Hibbits References: <20071103230152.0bdfbd36.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <47687B61.6090808@freebsd.org> <200712182154.45487.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <200712182205.09473.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <200712182205.09473.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.4_2,1 fails on RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: grehan@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:27:15 -0000 Hi Justin, > I stand corrected. In a last-ditch effort before going to bed, I retried > combinations. Miraculously using "SWCursor" works now, and I don't know how, > as I checked and double checked before sending the email. Good to hear. > The color issue is still present, and I think that's an endian issue, since >it's being drawn on an x86 Not surprising, Xvnc hosted on powerpc and rendering on x86 is unusable due to what sounds like similar issues. >(X forwarding of konqueror). I've had konqueror on BETA3. The kde-lite port took 22 hours to build on a 1.25Ghz G4 :). There is an issue with position-independent executables (PIE) which are used by KDE for various utilities: I had to hand-build these as non-PIE (e.g. one of the startup files, kdeinit ?). I'm looking into why the toolchain isn't producing the right thing for these. Now, does anyone out there have time to dig into the low-level ppc asm code needed to get Firefox running ? :) later, Peter.