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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:26:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X11 - Again...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990212122653.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902120934130.1703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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Doug Rabson, On 12-Feb-99 you wrote:

...

>  None of the SVGA drivers which use i386 assembler will work on the
>  alpha.
>  Since these are typically drivers for obsolete board, there isn't much
>  incentive to change them.  You need to disable the SVGA drivers and
>  servers which are failing by editing xf86site.def I think.
>  
>  I never had any problems with I128 or PEX but I haven't tried to build
>  3.3.3.1 yet (my patches are for 3.3.3).

I wiped out the XFree86 directiry, applied the patches to clean checkout
form CVS, moved the patched files back where they belong and it built
cleanly.

It is obvious it was a cocpit error on my part.  Apologies...

Now back to getting that darn DPT board to actually boot...

Simon


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