Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:05:25 -0700 From: Dave <friend@vortex4.net> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha? Message-ID: <19991003230525.J1233@vortex4.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271010160.88591-100000@eccles.salk.edu>; from Tom Bartol on Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:41:03AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271010160.88591-100000@eccles.salk.edu>
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--TA4f0niHM6tHt3xR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Getting the same sorts of problems; System is a PC164SX w/a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000...under twm got wierd stripes of titlebar color in some resolution modes..fvwm2 looked fine but I couldn't move windows... afterstep is prety mellow but the toolbar is a set of solid black boxes lined up on the side of the screen, but clicking on one of them launches xterms :> If I click and produce the application laucher menu over an xterm the menu becomes the new permanent background of the xterm...also switching out to a console with ctrl-alt-f2 made the system wig and reboot. So what's with all of these netcape ports saying they don't work on alpha? I managed to get netscape working under debian + XFree86; Is the x86 emulation not as far along in FreeBSD? On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:41:03AM -0700, Tom Bartol wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I've been trying to build and run Xfree86 on FreeBSD-current for the Alpha > and have run into several problems I'd like to report and compare notes > on. Please CC me and wathey@salk.edu on your responses directly as we > aren't (yet) subscribed to freebsd-alpha. >=20 > We are running FreeBSD-current for Alpha as of 19990923 and have cvsupped > our ports tree on that date as well. The machine is a 533MHz PC164LX with > 64MB RAM and a Matrox Millenium II with 4MB. >=20 > Problems/Observations: >=20 > 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 <sys/pci_ioctl.h>" = =20 > however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system. =20 > "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. >=20 > 2) SuperProbe segfaults. gdb doesn't like the core file so we have no > clue about the problem here. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > Thanks for your help, >=20 > Tom >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message --=20 Dave Cotton System Administrator Vortex4 Internet Services friend@vortex4.net --TA4f0niHM6tHt3xR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN/hDopezAGueKuk9AQEemQP+ImpXpK6IhcuAdMXbx8eBgXyRgVBx45/e BOT9qvfwyKq2vf1Pme6qwD5LUCLBtIaMv75po7RpUzsPWGIUPyyI1UvtkkJoTS8v q6GxHZ7ZMS/IPrq3NkbnnHoAP9fcuBWfKtva4/mVzUowigIhtjvTvm7HNodwwakL z75BpiutOMQ= =zgl+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TA4f0niHM6tHt3xR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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