Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:13:09 -0700 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: alasir@supereva.it Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.76 & MGA DRI Message-ID: <3E488665.6030407@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote: > Hello gentlemen, > > several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one > of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To > avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean > install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled > everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues. > > Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for > FreeBSD) saying "binary file is not executable", but > it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was > compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22 > installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No > help. Recompile your kernel with COMPAT_AOUT, or load the aout.ko kernel module. > > Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated > OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400 > hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at > all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are > intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even > compile under 5.x. I built kernel with "device mgadrm" > and "options DRM_LINUX", as well as "options > COMPAT_LINUX". After launching glxgears system hangs > up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So > far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps > compared to 368fps under 4.7. FreeBSD 5.0 comes with the DRM kernel modules in the base system, as it looks like you discovered. Can you enable a serial console and capture the crash? Scott > > --- > Regards, > Rhett > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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