From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 20 11:26:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 11:26:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C938D37B400; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29091; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:22:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eBKJMID93195; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:22:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:22:18 -0500 (EST) To: nobody@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mel kravitz , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UP1000 install comments In-Reply-To: <20001220104002.D9294@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200012200140.eBK1ePP01611@thunder.cs.duke.edu> <3A401265.FE8BB0E1@switchpwr.com> <14912.9600.519886.432333@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3A40BC39.990CBC32@switchpwr.com> <20001220104002.D9294@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14913.1632.650117.15534@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien writes: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:03:37AM -0500, mel kravitz wrote: > > > No idea. I usally build from ports. > > Ok i will do the same if i have to. > > Why can't you use the bits in XF86336 like on x86 boxes? That doesn't help if you want the XF86 version 4.x I can't stand XF86336 because, among other things, the trutype font support sucks on alpha. The truetype servers crash and the fontserver crashes. Even building the font server with Compaq C and running it remotely on a Tru64 box doesn't help... Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message