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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:13:09 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        alasir@supereva.it
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 4.76 & MGA DRI
Message-ID:  <3E488665.6030407@btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030211045117.87091.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com>

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Rhett Monteg Hollander wrote:

> Hello gentlemen,
>
> several days ago I've installed 5.0-RELEASE onto one
> of my machines, which already carried 4.7-RC1. To
> avoid possible compatibility problems, I did a clean
> install onto another hard drive, and later recompiled
> everything. Here I have a couple of annoying issues.
>
> Shell refuses to start Netscape Communicator 4.76 (for
> FreeBSD) saying "binary file is not executable", but
> it was (and is) running fine under 4.7. Since it was
> compiled under FreeBSD 2.2.x, I have compat22
> installed (together with compat3x and compat4x). No
> help.


Recompile your kernel with COMPAT_AOUT, or load the aout.ko kernel module.

>
> Second issue comes to be about hardware-accelerated
> OpenGL under XFree86 4.2.0, using Matrox G400
> hardware. Simply, there is no hardware acceleration at
> all. DRM kernel modules that come with 4.2.0 are
> intended for use with FreeBSD 4.x, and they don't even
> compile under 5.x. I built kernel with "device mgadrm"
> and "options DRM_LINUX", as well as "options
> COMPAT_LINUX". After launching glxgears system hangs
> up completely. Problem seems to be within libdrm. So
> far I have no DRI, but software OpenGL, and 162fps
> compared to 368fps under 4.7.


FreeBSD 5.0 comes with the DRM kernel modules in the base system, as it 
looks like you discovered.  Can you enable a serial console and capture 
the crash?

Scott

>
> ---
> Regards,
>  Rhett
>
>
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