From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 30 14:38:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6191A15922 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA59940; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:39:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:39:38 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Steve Price Cc: William Woods , FreeBSD Alpha Subject: RE: Compiling XFree on an 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 Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Steve Price wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, William Woods wrote: > > # OK, I applied this patch and now when I go to compile, I dont get the option > # to compile any VGA servers?? It starts right out asking: > # > # Do you want to build the Mono server [YES] > # " " " " S3 Server [YES] > # " " " " S3V Server [YES] > # " " " " Mach16 Server [YES] > # " " " " P9000 server [YES] > # " " " " I128 server [YES] > # " " " " GLINT Server [YES] > # " " " " TGA Server [YES] > # > # default server to instal. [none] > # > # ------------------------------------------ > # > # I answeder No to everything except what server to install, and I put SVGA in > # there. > # > # Well, It compiled and installed everything...sorta...I have no Xsetup, > # Xconfigurator.... > > :) You've run into the catch-22 of building parts of X. In > order to get Xsetup and friends you need tcl/tk and in order > to get them you need X which won't... you get the idea. If > you build X again after installing any version of tcl/tk you > will get the missing files. Or you can munge around in the > X source and find the right bits to recompile. Even after that you have the larger problem of XF86_VGA16 not being supported on the alpha since it is packed full of i386 assembler :-(. I wimped out and copied a config file from an i386 box.. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message