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Date:      Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:48:35 -0600
From:      Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net>
To:        Hans Huebner <hans@Huebner.ORG>
Cc:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject:   Re: X11 - Again... 
Message-ID:  <199902141548.JAA01133@set.spradley.tmi.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:48:17 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990213094157.9041A-100000@castle.huebner.org> 

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> 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
> 



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