From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Sep 27 11:23:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F7114C02 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA21759; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:23:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:23:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: Tom Bartol Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jack Wathey Subject: Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Tom Bartol wrote: # Problems/Observations: # # 1) We could "make" XFree86 but a "make install" failed due to a missing # /usr/include/sys/pci_ioctl.h. We noticed that patch-4 for for # /usr/port/x11/XFree86 includes a patch to "#include " # however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system. # "make world" in /usr/src does not install this file. We found the file in # /usr/src/sys/pci and copied it by hand to /usr/include/sys. After this a # "make install" for XFree86 succeeded. FreeBSD for Intel does not have # this file in /usr/include/sys and XFree86 does not require it on Intel. Hmm... I'll look into this tonight. I'm pretty sure I did a 'make -DCLOBBER world' last time, but maybe I didn't. # 2) SuperProbe segfaults. gdb doesn't like the core file so we have no # clue about the problem here. This is a known problem. Just a matter of porting the VGA16 server to FreeBSD/Alpha. Any volunteers? :) # 3) We configured X to run the X_SVGA server for our Matrox Millenium II. # The server starts up fine but some windows are filled with black and # menus pop up empty until you run the mouse cursor over the locations where # the text should be. This one is new to me. I don't have a head on my Alpha box at home, but it sounds like I need free up a monitor so I can look into this and a couple of other problems I've been seeing. # Can anyone tell us if this is normal for the current status of XFree86 for # FreeBSD-current on the Alpha. I scanned the freebsd-alpha mail archive # but could glean any insights into this matter. Is there some miss # configuration on our system causing pci_ioctl.h to be skipped during a # "make world"? Should we be using a different brand of video card? This could be caused by bogus definitions in pci_ioctl.h. Give me some time later tonight and I'll see what I can do about getting the port to build without pci_ioctl.h. -steve # Thanks for your help, # # Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message