From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 28 9:46:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from out4.prserv.net (out4.prserv.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E92E15798 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dermot@mcnally.de) Received: from TIGGER ([139.92.4.192]) by out4.prserv.net (/) with ESMTP id QAA33002; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:46:15 GMT Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990928183931.00ac7270@tim> X-Sender: dermot@tim X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:42:09 +0200 To: Tom Bartol From: Dermot McNally Subject: Re: Status of XFree86 on Alpha? Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just to add my experience to the picture: At 10:41 27/09/99 -0700, Tom Bartol wrote: >1) We could "make" XFree86 but a "make install" failed due to a missing >/usr/include/sys/pci_ioctl.h. We noticed that patch-4 for for >/usr/port/x11/XFree86 includes a patch to "#include " >however this file does not exist in /usr/include/sys on our system. >"make world" in /usr/src does not install this file. We found the file in >/usr/src/sys/pci and copied it by hand to /usr/include/sys. After this a >"make install" for XFree86 succeeded. FreeBSD for Intel does not have >this file in /usr/include/sys and XFree86 does not require it on Intel. Yup, same here, and the same solution. >3) We configured X to run the X_SVGA server for our Matrox Millenium II. >The server starts up fine but some windows are filled with black and >menus pop up empty until you run the mouse cursor over the locations where >the text should be. Exactly the same symptoms here. It's a 2 Meg Matrox Millenium, and the box, FWIW, is a DEC Personal Workstation 433. Cheers, Dermot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message