From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Feb 14 07:49:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06872 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 07:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from set.spradley.tmi.net (set.spradley.tmi.net [207.170.107.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06865 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 07:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net) Received: from set.spradley.tmi.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by set.spradley.tmi.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01133; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:48:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net) Message-Id: <199902141548.JAA01133@set.spradley.tmi.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Hans Huebner cc: Simon Shapiro , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Rabson Subject: Re: X11 - Again... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:48:17 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:48:35 -0600 From: Ted Spradley Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > it is as simple as that: The patches work with XFree-3.3.3.1 without > any problem. They will not (not!) work with older versions. To use > them, you need the current x11/XFree86 port. Please make sure that > your Makefile is: > > # $Id: Makefile,v 1.52 1999/01/27 18:32:15 fenner Exp $ > > If all this is given, patch --index-first will give no errors whatsoever, > the build will run completely fine and you'll get a useable SVGA server. Thanks! This was the clue I needed. It turns out that there was something messed up in my mirror of the CVS repository and my cvsup cron job was aborting. Since ports/x11 is at the very end, it wasn't updated even though everything else I use was just fine. > > Note that the server starts up in 8 bpp mode unless you explicitly tell > it to use 16 bits on the command line. 8 bit mode is broken, as mentioned > on the web page. > > -Hans > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message