From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 10 21:13:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8DC37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2770943FBD for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1B5DjD25877; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00513; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02486; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:13:29 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E488665.6030407@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:13:09 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021105 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alasir@supereva.it Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.76 & MGA DRI References: <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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