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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 13:50:20 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Orlando Bassotto <orlando@break.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How much longer for GNOME
Message-ID:  <4292A47C.2020301@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050524033302.78FF31D9115@supertolla.itapac.net>
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> There are a few issues anyway:
> - You can't switch anymore to any console once in X (monitor goes out  
> of sync)

  Same on the mini. This works fine with Nvidia cards. I guess it's not 
detecting the original settings correctly.

> - Using DGA results in out of sync and X doesn't recover

  I've not tried that.

> - Using GL sometime segfaults the application (I didn't investigate  
> much further into this)

  I found that glxgears would lock up the server, though if I built it 
and hacked it to run a frame at a time it would be fine :-(

> Also, the loader seems not happy loading modules, it results
> in an exception and returns to of prompt... if you need
> SRR0/SRR1 I can grab them off.

  Oh, didn't test that. Shouldn't be too hard to find/fix - I'll look 
into it.

later,

Peter.



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